“In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have lived, worked and played. I look for traces of the past, visual fingerprints, evidence of activities - they fire my imagination and connect into my own personal experiences. Using the analogy of the theater, I would say that I like to photograph the empty stage, before or after the performance, even in between acts. I love the atmosphere of anticipation, the feeling in the air that events have happened, or will happen soon.” PeopleLooksStoriesFeelingsHappensPastImaginationMemoriesMy OwnFireHappenedAirStageEventsActivityEvidenceEmptyPerformancesTheaterPhotographerPhotographAtmosphereVisualsAnticipationMy ImaginationAnalogiesPersonal ExperiencesFingerprintsEmpty Stage Author:Michael Kenna
“Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others.” PiecesPaintingPhotographyEvidencePhotographBiographiesOngoing Book:A Susan Sontag reader Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had found in the Andromeda Nebula that appeared and disappeared on photographs of that object. The famous astronomer very patiently explains that these objects could not be stars because the Nebula was a nearby gaseous cloud within our own Milky Way system. Shapley takes his handkerchief from his pocket and wipes the identifying marks off the back of the photographic plate.” WayScienceFoundStarsObjectsEvidenceMarkPhotographCloudsPocketsPlatesWipeIdentifyingWilsonAstronomersDomesMilky WayHandkerchiefsAndromedaNebula Author:Halton Arp
“It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Oglivy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence... Comrade Oglivy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.” PersonsPastLinesExistenceCoupleEvidencePhotographForgottenPrintComradeJuliusForgery Author:George Orwell
“A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand; but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.” MeanMadeHandsLightFilmArtistPaintingEvidenceShadowPhotographVisualsRepresentationConvincingFlattering Book:More Matter: Essays And Criticism Source: More Matter: Essays And Criticism
“An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.” ArtArtistEvidenceAccountsPhotographWorks Of ArtDocumentariesEyewitnesses Author:Dieter Roth
“I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.” EvidenceTraditionPhotographWitnessEncounters Author:Susan Meiselas
“We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was a myth from the very beginning.” WorldTryingYearsRealEvidencePhotographMythConvinceReal World Author:A. D. Coleman
“[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.” EvidencePhotograph Author:Jim Goldberg
“I do believe in angels and I believe that a lot of these people I'm supposed to meet. The photograph serves as evidence; it causes me to reflect on when I met this person.” PeopleBelievePersonsI BelieveCausesMetsEvidenceAngelPhotograph Author:Jamel Shabazz
“The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual diary.” PersonsConversationDegreesEvidencePhotographVisualsDiaries Author:Jamel Shabazz
“I enjoy places that have mystery and atmosphere, perhaps a patina of age, a suggestion rather than a description, a question or two. I look for memories, traces, evidence of the human interaction with the landscape. Sometimes I photograph pure nature, sometimes urban structures.” HumansLooksTwoSometimesAgeEnjoyMemoriesMysteryPureEvidenceStructurePhotographLandscapeAtmosphereDescriptionInteractionUrbanSuggestions Author:Michael Kenna
“The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very existence ... The Photograph then becomes a bizarre (i)medium(i), a new form of hallucination: false on the level of perception, true on the level of time: a temporal hallucination, so to speak, a modest (o)shared(i) hallucination (on the one hand 'it is not there,' on the other 'but it has indeed been'): a mad image, chafed by reality.” IfsHandsRealityFormSpeakLevelsExistenceFiguresPerceptionEvidenceMadPhotographMediumsModestBizarreLoadedConversesHallucinations Author:Roland Barthes
“And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel. It is the hope that we might express ourselves fully-and the evidence that other photographers have done so-that keep us taking pictures.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsImportantDoneProblemMightDesireStrongPleasureSeeingExpressionHabitPhotographyEvidencePhotographerPhotographBordersCaptureTaking PicturesStrong Desire Author:Sam Abell
“Among the hundreds of so-called "UFO reports" each year, a sizable fraction of those clearly observed by reputable witnesses remain unexplained-and difficult to explain in conventional terms. There is a modicum of physical evidence, radar cases, residual effects, and some films-and photographs in support of the unexplained cases. Collectively, these cases constitute a genuine scientific mystery, badly in need of well-supported, systematic investigation.” NeedsYearsWellsFilmDifficultTermCasesSupportMysteryEffectsEvidencePhotographGenuineWitnessReportsInvestigationConventionalUfoFractionsSystematicRadarUnexplainedResidual Author:Richard Hall