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“There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it is utter rot to burden those interested in them with irrelevant biographical trivia and pet longwinded theory.”

Black White Conditions Theory Photograph Burden Pet Black And White Irrelevant Trivia

Book:Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye

Source: Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye

“All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.”

Conditions Photography Photograph Memorable Aspire Being Me Unforgettable

Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.”

Culture Conditions Logic Photograph Helpless

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.”

Moments Vision Forever Conditions Particular Photograph Fixed Angle

Author:Thomas Demand

“Subject matter comes to you, you don't go to it... Although I shoot extemporaneously a lot of the time, I prefer to have half a dozen shots in my mind. Probably I have seen them many times under different conditions and I have been thinking about them. The moment shall come when I shall go back to them and make the photographs.”

Thinking Mind Has Beens Different Matter Moments Half Conditions Subjects Shots Photograph Dozen Subject Matter

Author:Max Dupain

“The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.”

Conditions Depends Messages Photograph Incomplete Utterance

Book:Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983

Source: Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983

“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.”

Ifs Mind Ideas States Records Conditions Fronts Cameras Photographer Photograph Arguing Setting Settings State Of Mind Documents

Author:James Welling