“To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often unconsciously. Otherwise the photographs are merely about an idea or a concept-that stuff eventually falls flat for me-there must be something more, some emotional hook for it to really work for me.” IdeasFallStuffInterestConsciousnessMysteryEmotionalPhotographyConsciousConceptsPhotographFlatsHookEffectivenessGrapplingFlatness Author:Todd Hido
“Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were poetry, would be more like Ezra Pound. There is a lot of information in most of my pictures, but not the kind of information you see in documentary photography. There is emotional information in my photographs.” IfsKindWould BeInformationEmotionalPhotographyPhotographerPhotographPoundsDocumentariesHaikuDocumentary Photography Author:Sally Mann
“Essentially, in photography, I think on two levels: one emotional and the other technical. The emotional impact has to do with looking for something dramatic happening in the photograph, something that reaches out and touches somebody in some way. And the technical is having to do with composition and framing - light and dark, light and shadow.” ThinkingWayTwoLightDarkLevelsEmotionalPhotographyHappeningsShadowImpactPhotographDramaticReach OutCompositionLight And DarkFramingLight And Shadow Author:Leonard Nimoy
“... a fact about photography: we can look at people's faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states - for a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.” PeopleFirstsLooksMayStatesFactsLastsFacesSleepEmotionalPhotographyPhotographExtremesIntimacyIntensityReserves Author:Adam Gopnik
“Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.” PurposeEmotionalPhotographyWanderEmotional Things Book:This is the Day: The March on Washington Source: This is the Day: The March on Washington
“I think I'm really fortunate to be an installation artist who is heavily invested in photography: I don't have the emotional problems with the loss of work that some installation artists have. The photographs wouldn't exist without the installation... but at the same time, I think I'd kill myself if I only did installations. There's something deeply tragic about doing work that you know is temporal.” IfsThinkingKnowsProblemArtistLossEmotionalPhotographyPhotographFortunateTragicInstallationEmotional Problems Author:Sandy Skoglund