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“Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to one who does a self-portrait...self-portraits deny not only photography itself but the 20th century as an era as well...an inevitable phenomenon at the end of the 20th century.”

Wells Doe Ends Self Interest Century Objects Photography Photograph Deny Eras Inevitable Phenomenon Portraits 20th Century Self Portrait Self Portrait Photography

Author:Yasumasa Morimura

“One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their own paintings. They chose it even over photographs because they knew the photographic medium would distort their work.”

Made Black White Interesting Century Painting Late Photograph Mediums Painter Copies Black And White Interesting Things 19th Century

Author:Robert Longo

“For me, going back to itinerant landscape painting, it's not about returning to an older method, but about building on what happened in the 20th century in photography. And also highlighting what the differences are between a painting and a photograph in picturing space.”

Differences Space Happened Century Building Painting Photography Method Photograph Landscape 20th Century Highlighting Landscape Painting

Author:Cynthia Daignault

“Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Look at photographs. It's amazing. The face on a homeless person is timeless.”

People Looks Persons Faces Poverty Century Photograph Timeless Homeless Homeless People Dostoyevsky

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.”

Bigs Century Photography Photograph Hobbies 19th Century

Author:Brian May

“I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.”

Thinking Wonderful Crazy Century Machines Cameras Photograph

Author:Peter Beard

“The nineteenth-century way of looking at the photograph was as a mirror for the memory, and at that time the photographs almost looked like mirrors, with their polished metallic surfaces.”

Way Memories Century Mirrors Photograph Surface Nineteenth Century Polished Metallic

Book:Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

Source: Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography