“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
“If you are walking down the street, camera in your hand, loaded and ready to shoot. You see a person falling from a high building, either having fallen or jumped. That person is falling through space. You don't shoot that photograph unless the theme you are working on has to do with the effects of space on the human figure. If you simply photograph that event because it is an event that is happening, you're doing photojournalism.” IfsHumansPersonsHandsFallSpaceStreetsEffectsEventsFiguresBuildingReadyWalkingHappeningsCamerasPhotographFallenThemeLoadedPhotojournalism Author:Leonard Nimoy
“Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of a self-portrait. I think it's impossible for a photographer who is working honestly to keep this from happening.” IfsThinkingMadeSelfBitsImpossibleFrontsPhotographyHappeningsCamerasPhotographerPhotographHonestlyMade ItPortraitsSelf Portrait Author:John Sexton
“Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there to show us the world, but to show us a version of what may be happening.” WorldNeedsMayShowsAttentionDemandHappeningsPhotographVersionsViewersPosing Author:Fred Ritchin
“What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?” PeopleThinkingShouldYearsShowsPhotographyHappeningsCatPhotographBillionsCostumes Author:John Szarkowski
“I drove from New York to California by myself. The iconography of travel and escape is everywhere in my photographs... So actually becoming a runaway was crucial. I had this idea that I'd make my way across the frontier and find my story as it was actually happening in the landscape.” WayIdeasStoriesNew YorkBecomingHappeningsPhotographMy WayLandscapeCaliforniaCrucialFrontiersRunawayIconography Author:Justine Kurland
“I wanted to put reality in my photographs. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. That's what was happening. And I was going to help make it happen. Boy, they did not want that in America.” WantHelpingRealityHappensWantedAmericaSexBoysRocksDrugHappeningsPhotographRock N RollMake It HappenSex Drugs Author:Bob Richardson
“I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why.” IfsTryingLooksInterestingHappeningsPhotograph Author:Garry Winogrand