“The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.” IfsThinkingMenNeedsImportantSelfSeemsSpiritOrderWaterExistenceAcceptingColorGratitudeAbsolutesPhotographOilDrawingIntenseSelf RealizationMediumsRealizationUselessComparisonDespiseJustificationInferiorsIrrelevantEmphasisImpotenceEtching Author:Paul Strand
“Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color” WorldRealSeemsBlackWhiteColorLosingPhotographReal WorldBlack And White Author:Tablo
“A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind.” KindArtSpecialColorPhotographSpotsWorks Of ArtUnimportant Book:Photomontages of the Nazi Period Source: Photomontages of the Nazi Period
“Light gesture and color of the key compliments of any photograph. Light and color are obvious, but it is just her that is the most important. There is gesture in everything. It's up to you to find a gesture that is most telling.” ImportantLightColorKeysPhotographObviousComplimentGesturesUp To YouLight And Color Author:Jay Maisel
“I was out in California over the holidays and I was working with some photographs I took out there just now, actually, which were all different photographs of the sunset. They're really interesting because El Niño has changed the cloud configuration, not only the sea, but also the whole makeup of the clouds, the sunset, and the different gradations of color and tonality. So it'll be interesting to work with that.” DifferentWholeInterestingSeaChangedColorPhotographCloudsCaliforniaSunsetHolidayMakeupReally InterestingConfiguration Author:Michelle Stuart
“There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.” ColorRootsAnd LovePhotographDrivingTitlesCaliforniaSundayLos AngelesTruckSantaJanuaryBarbaraGridsSanta Barbara Author:Jerry Saltz