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“My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea, even switch me to different subject matter. So I start out with my mind as free from image as the silver film on which I am to record, and I hope as sensitive.”

Mind May Ideas Different Matter Eye Film My Own Records Subjects Cameras Sensitive Silver Subject Matter Different Subjects

Book:Edward Weston on photography

Source: Edward Weston on photography

“The photogram, image formation outside the camera is the real key to photography,it embodies the essence... that allows us to capture light on light sensitive material without the use of any camera.”

Real Use Light Materials Keys Photography Essence Cameras Sensitive Capture Formation

Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“I don't want to force somebody to talk about sensitive subjects if they're not into it, but at the very least, even if that's happening off camera, it's allowing everybody to be on the same level, and creates an atmosphere on set that engenders trust.”

Ifs Want Force Levels Subjects Happenings Cameras Atmosphere Sensitive Allowing

Author:Joe Swanberg

“When I make a documentary I shoot very little but I hang around with my camera for a long time. I look at the people for a long time through the loop and then when I see something interested then I shoot. I think that I have become very sensitive to these things.”

People Thinking Looks Littles Long Long Time Cameras Sensitive Documentaries Loops

Author:Pirjo Honkasalo

“If fact were enough, you could take a photo of the subject. Unlike the sensitive observer, however, the camera never selects or comments, never adds or subtracts.”

Ifs Enough Facts Subjects Cameras Add Sensitive Comment Observers

Book:The art of landscape painting

Source: The art of landscape painting

“Since 1873, I have been back four or five times. I have used the best cameras and the most sensitive emulsions on the market. I have snapped my shutter, morning, noon and afternoon. I have never come close to matching those first plates. (On photographing The Mountain of the Holy Cross)”

Firsts Has Beens Used Morning Five Four Holy Mountain Crosses Cameras Sensitive Afternoon Plates Noon Matching Shutters Holy Cross

Book:An eye for history: the paintings of William Henry Jackson : from the collection at the Oregon Trail Museum

Source: An eye for history: the paintings of William Henry Jackson : from the collection at the Oregon Trail Museum

“I always try to create equal power between the subject and the object, so as not to end up creating a relationship where the camera is here and the object out there. This is for me a very difficult and sensitive balance. When I produce a work, cut and frame images, I realize that spectators can identify with the images and almost forget that someone else actually made them. This would be the optimal situation. I don't know whether I succeed in doing so, but that's what I would like to have happen.”

Knows Trying Made Ends Happens Would Be Difficult Realizing Forget Situation Cutting Subjects Objects Produce Balance Succeed Equal Creating Cameras Sensitive Spectators Optimal Equal Power

Author:Pipilotti Rist

“The similarity between Van Gogh, Haiku poetry, and good photography is the concern for mortality. That things are very fleeting, that there are people who are more sensitive to death than others. The threat of time is of great concern to them. And the camera is a very appropriate instrument for many.”

People Photography Concern Cameras Instruments Threat Sensitive Appropriate Mortality Fleeting Vans Similarity Haiku Good Photography

Author:Dennis Stock