“The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is a hunt for new states of things, situations never seen before, for the improbable, for information.” StatesSituationInformationPhotographyFunctionCamerasPhotographerHuntsImprobableIndivisible Book:Towards a Philosophy of Photography Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography
“I may not be funny. I may not be a singer. I may not be a damn seamstress. I may have diabetes. I may have really bad vision. I may have one leg. I may not know how to read. I may not know who the vice president is. I may technically be an alien of the state. I may have a Zune. I may not know Excel. I may be two 9-year-olds in a trench coat. I may not have full control of my bowels. I may drive a '94 Honda Civic. I may not “get” cameras. I may dye my hair with Hydrogen Peroxide. I may be afraid of trees. I may be on fire right now. But I'm a fierce queen.” KnowsYearsMayTwoStatesPresidentVisionKnow HowFireTreeHairRight NowCamerasVicesLegsSingersAliensQueensDamnFierceCoatsCivicsVice PresidentDiabetesHydrogenTrenchesI May Not BeBowelsHondaTrench Coats Author:Justin Johnson
“I had gotten rid of the crying when I got to high school, though it happened again when I was a junior. We lost in the state championship. It was kind of the same situation, camera in my face, and then that's when I realized it was over I had my moment.” KindStatesMomentsSchoolFacesLostSituationHappenedCryHigh SchoolCamerasI RealizedChampionshipJuniors Author:Chris Bosh
“You have to think of each stage of the movie and how it progresses, get into the state of mind of the character, and then match the camera to that, and keep making it tighter and tighter and crazier and crazier so people don't get bored. You know you cannot do a similar shot that you did at the beginning of the movie at the end.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMindEndsStatesCharacterProgressStageShotsCamerasBoredState Of Mind Author:Jaume Collet-Serra
“The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literature is totally lacking in any working method to enable it to isolate a single vastly enlarged detail in which one face comes forward to underline a state of mind or stress the importance of a single detail in comparison with the rest. As a narrative device, the ability to vary the distance between the camera and the object may be a small thing indeed, but it makes for a notable difference between cinema and oral or written narrative, in which the distance between language and image is always the same.” MindMayStatesFacesLiteratureLanguageDifferencesAbilityWrittenObjectsImportanceStressCamerasMethodDistanceDetailsNarrativeCinemaComparisonDevicesState Of MindLackingSmall ThingsVaryNotable Author:Italo Calvino
“A photograph records both the thing in front of the camera and the conditions of its making... A photograph is also a document of the state of mind of the photographer. And if you were to extend the idea of the set-up photograph beyond just physically setting up the picture, I would argue that the photographer wills the picture into being.” IfsMindIdeasStatesRecordsConditionsFrontsCamerasPhotographerPhotographArguingSettingSettingsState Of MindDocuments Author:James Welling
“I didn't react visually. This girl came up and knelt over the body and let out a God-awful scream that made me click the camera. (On photographing Mary Vecchio with slain student Jeffery Miller during the shootings of students at Kent State, April, 1970.)” MadeStatesBodyGirlStudentsCamerasAwfulShootingScreamMaryAprilClicksThis GirlKent Author:John Filo
“When I put the camera back to my eye, I noticed a particular guardsman pointing at me. I said, "I'll get a picture of this," and his rifle went off. And almost simultaneously, as his rifle went off, a halo of dust came off a sculpture next to me, and the bullet lodged in a tree. I dropped my camera in the realization that it was live ammunition. I don't know what gave me the combination of innocence and stupidity... but I never took cover.” KnowsSaidStatesEyeNextTreeStudentsParticularCamerasStupidityDustRealizationInnocenceCombinationShootingBulletsSculpturePointingAprilRiflesAmmunitionHalosKent Author:John Filo
“Basically, if you have above-average intelligence, you have common sense and you can speak in front of a camera and to a crowd, you can govern the state.” IfsStatesSpeakCommonFrontsCamerasAverageCrowdsCommon SenseAbove Average Author:Jerry Brown
“How are these people deserving huge payouts for losing weight when they should have done it without the camera or without a team helping them? Then, six months later you go back and find out where they are, and they're in a worse state than they were in before they joined the f - ing show. Then they blame the producer.” PeopleShouldStatesDoneHelpingShowsTeamHugeMonthsSixLosingShould HaveWeightCamerasBlameProducersSix MonthsDeserving Author:Gordon Ramsay
“You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are - the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones, the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day.” ThinkingSelfStatesOur LivesCrazySecurityInternetSmartCamerasPhonesDataTrailsVery SmartCrumbsTracking Author:Susan Orlean
“It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.” ShouldHas BeensStatesWholeLastsPresidentSpaceUnitedFictionTechnologyUnited StatesFantasyPagesShould HaveCamerasScience FictionBrilliantInstantExcessDevotedMiceDisneylandMickeyTrivia Author:J. G. Ballard
“I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing the rules against illegal immigration, and I'll tell you what the answer is. The answer is that when the television cameras turn off and the spotlight moves to something else, there are a host of interest groups and advocacy groups who work very, very hard to make it difficult to enforce these rules. I'm not commenting adversely on their motivation, but I can tell you the effect of all of this is to wear down the ability of an agency to enforce the law.” YearsI CanSometimesHardStatesSeemsMovingLawMotivationTurnsDifficultInterestAbilityAnswersUnitedUnited StatesTroubleGroupsEffectsTelevisionCamerasImmigrationAgencyIllegalHostSpotlightTurn OffAdvocacyIllegal ImmigrationInterest Groups Author:Michael Chertoff