“When a person looks at a photograph you've taken, they will always think of themselves, their own life experience. They will relate your photograph to their memories. That interplay is where a picture comes alive and grows into something. They function like invitations.” ThinkingLooksPersonsGrowsMemoriesTakenAlivePhotographyFunctionPhotographRelateLife ExperienceInvitations Author:Jason Fulford
“I think with being blind the one thing you would have going is that you could still feel things, see your way around so to speak. And if you had had the experience of seeing at one time in your life, then you would know what it was like and be able to function. I've said this before, I think I could really photograph blind if I had to.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayFeelsSaidStillsAbleSpeakSeeingOne ThingFunctionBlindPhotographOne Time Author:William Eggleston
“A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.” NeedsFunctionPhotographExplanationSuggestionsExplicit Author:Mary Ellen Mark
“Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document and act as a work of art as well.” MenWellsArtReasonDifficultProvePhotographyFunctionPhotographMediumsInevitableWorks Of ArtDocumentsTransparent Book:The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949 Source: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949
“I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic.” LooksFunctionPhotographMetaphorTrafficSublimeSymbolic Author:John Divola
“The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.” ModelsFunctionPhotographMetaphorCeasePropose Author:Thomas Struth
“While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.” PersonsPlayMomentsRolesSubjectsFunctionPhotographerPhotographMetaphorAppearanceSymbolsThat Moment Author:Minor White
“Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now and then you catch a glimpse of the photographer's reflection. The mirror is just another function of the window.” WhitePurePhotographyReflectionWindowFunctionMirrorsPhotographerPhotographDescriptionFrankNow And ThenMinorsGlimpse Author:Alec Soth