Best Darkroom Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If you want to see me You better hurry before the Christmas morning I'm about disappear.”

Broken Losing Disappear Christmas Darkroom

“Now there are elements of our dynamic coming slowly into view, like a photograph in a darkroom.”

Book:You

Source: You

“Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the civil rights movement and immigration. These stories, rendered through the words and eyes of a young Latina girl who came from Argentina to Marion, Alabama, are made vivid and immediate through Weaver's highly accessible drawings and dialogue. This is a book-about maturation, family, education, and social change-every schoolchild, parent, and citizen should experience.”

“The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic.”

Soul Photographer Cells Solitary Chamber Laboratory Neurotic Darkroom

Author:Anais Nin

“I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can”

Photography Tools Photographer Valuable Trash Trash Cans Darkroom

Author:John Sexton

“To convey in the print the feeling you experienced when you exposed your film – to walk out of the darkroom and say: ‘This is it, the equivalent of what I saw and felt!’. That’s what it’s all about.”

Feelings Film Felt Walks Saws Print Exposed Darkroom

Author:John Sexton

“I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.”

Years Believe Kind Artist Found Photography Surprise Photographer Various All Kinds Darkroom

Author:John Sexton

“It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming.”

Stills Age Artist Results Behinds Watches Cameras Photographer Excited Darkroom

Author:John Sexton

“A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for my eyes only, and they are no good. I find the single most valuable tool in the darkroom is my trash can - that's where most of my prints end up.”

Needs Ends Facts Eye Photography Tools Photographer Valuable Print Editors Trash Trash Cans Darkroom

Author:John Sexton

“Scientists are supposed to live in ivory towers. Their darkrooms and their vibration-proof benches are supposed to isolate their activities from the disturbances of common life. What they tell us is supposed to be for the ages, not for the next election. But the reality may be otherwise.”

May Reality Age Next Common Activity Scientist Election Proof Supposed To Be Towers Vibrations Benches Disturbance Ivory Common Life Ivory Tower Darkroom

Author:Simon LeVay

“Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.”

Recovery Alcoholics Slogans Alcoholics Anonymous Aa Meeting 12 Step Recovery Darkroom Aa Recovery

Author:Zig Ziglar

“Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.”

Cameras Available Seductive Darkroom

Author:Garry Winogrand

“I still don't understand why when you put a piece of paper in a tray with solution in it, it comes up. It's still, in a sense, magic to me. It's a funny thing, you know. I've got two kids, and when they were very young, they used to come in the darkroom and I thought they'd be astounded by that. Nothing. When they got a little older, then they got astounded by it.”

Knows Littles Stills Two Kids Young Used Pieces Magic Paper Solutions Come Up Funny Things Trays Astounded Darkroom

Author:Garry Winogrand

“There's something magical still about it when I get in a darkroom, and you've shot a roll of film and you develop it and you look at your negatives, and there's like imagery there. That always stuns me.”

Looks Stills Film Shots Imagery Darkroom

Author:Jessica Lange

“For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.”

Moments Process Magic Photography Exciting Photographer Frustrating Printing Disappointing Darkroom

Author:John Sexton

“When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom.”

Artist Challenges Views Ready Photography Cameras Presses Release Encounters Cables Anticipate Darkroom

Author:John Sexton

“I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard's study; because he would make love to me I am sending back the key; in his eye's darkroom I can see my X-rayed heart, dissected body: I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard s study.”

Heart I Can Body Eye Study Keys Let Me His Eyes Making Love Darkroom Make Love To Me

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.”

Believe Hard Computer Photography Labor Believe In Me Darkroom

Author:Jerry Uelsmann

“I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.”

Inspirational Wells School Funny Together Film Cutting Events My Friends Cameras Saved Video Staff Graduation Sporting Events Video Cameras Yearbook Darkroom Nikon

Author:Dianna Agron

“My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.”

Kind Night Father Dark Taught Photography Fruit Hobbies Basements Cellars Darkroom

Author:Sam Abell

“You know what 'FEAR' stands for? It stands for 'False Evidence Appearing Real.' It's the darkroom where Satan develops his negatives.”

Knows Real Evidence Satan Appearing Darkroom

Author:Gary Busey

“I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.”

Years Artist Couple Darkroom

Author:Imogen Cunningham

“The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.”

Beautiful Dark Rooms Gone Trouble Photographer Beautiful Women Dark Room Darkroom

Author:Yousuf Karsh

“My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is.”

Knows Needs Lifestyle Bizarre Darkroom

Author:Robert Mapplethorpe

“It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.”

Ifs Fun Special Effects Having Fun Lighting Special Effects Visual Effects Darkroom

Author:Lacey Chabert

“I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.”

Years My Own Havens Photography Photographer Darkroom

Author:Graham Nash

“Darkroom work had, after all, never interested me except as a means to an end; the place I wanted to be was outside in the light.”

Mean Ends Light Wanted Means To An End Darkroom

Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

“I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.”

Want Years Stills Use Film Fine Photography Tools Photographer Newspapers Digital Great Work Love Films Photoshop Digital Photography Darkroom

Author:Mary Ellen Mark

“Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors' children and so on.”

Way Children Age School Stuff My Own Photography High School Neighbor One Way My Way Earning Biscuits Taking Pictures Darkroom

Author:Elliott Erwitt

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