“I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.” YearsKindTeachFourCollegePhotographyTrainingNewspapersLocalsFour YearsBasic Training Author:James Nachtwey
“Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty four years after we undertook to make the first instant camera and film, our kind of photography has become ubiquitous.” YearsFirstsKindFilmFourEssentialsPhotographyCamerasInstantThirtyFiftyDigitalFour YearsLayersCrystalsLiquidSynthetic Author:Edwin Land
“Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.” InspiringFourPhotographyTwentiesCinemaGreat Photography Author:Jean-Luc Godard
“I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.” YearsDoeArtStatesEnoughRunningSchoolStuffClassFourCollegeLuckyPhotographyTestsGradesFour YearsGreyHippieArt SchoolBlah Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.” WayFilmSimpleFourSkyColorPhotographyRedAbsolutesBlueGreenVulgarLipstickBlue SkySimple WordsFoliageColor Photography Author:Walker Evans