“Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!” KnowsMenWantGivingWellsLittlesLongCan DoColorMonthsPhotographyIllusionMachinesUltimateIntelligentDo You KnowSweatIngeniousCan Do SomethingIntelligent Man Book:The writings of a savage Source: The writings of a savage
“Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent... the camera.” MenProblemTechnologyStruggleExamplePhotographyMachinesOvercomingCamerasPhotographerDependentParadoxicalMechanization Author:Ernst Haas
“Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.” ThinkingArtHelpingPhotographyMachines Author:Paul Gauguin
“To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines operating at one thousand horsepower - only photography is capable of that. What those who are attached to the painterly style regard as photography's defect, the mechanical reproduction of form - is just what makes it superior to all other means of expression.” MeanFormJusticeTechnologyModernStyleExpressionThousandPhotographyCapableMachinesRegardStructureSuperiorsBridgesDefectsLoftyReproductionLinearDynamismCranesModern TechnologyHorsepower Author:Albert Renger-Patzsch
“I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness.” DesireAwarenessPhotographyMachinesCamerasSlaveConquer Author:Todd Walker
“The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.” FirstsHumansHeartMeanHas BeensArtOrderChallengesHuman BeingsCitiesMysteryStreetsPhotographyIntellectualMachinesBallsPhotographerObjectivesVisualsSensiblePortraitsSelectionFrameworkObjectivityCity StreetsBouncing Ball Author:Berenice Abbott
“Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.” MayArtMadeRealityCoursesOpportunitySoundLinesChanceRecordsReadyFineElementsFindingsPhotographyMusicianArgumentMachinesPhotographerMediumsPainterCombinationPhrasesBranchesMelodyTrendsCompositionMechanicSurroundingsFine Arts Author:Edward Weston
“Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.” PersonsImaginationQualityExpressionProductsLimitsPhotographyMachines Author:Ansel Adams
“George Lazenby is no one's favorite James Bond, but for me the anonymity at the center of this lavish production only serves to reveal the Bond machine firing on all cylinders: superb editing and photography, incredible score, great setpieces. The most romantic in the series, and it actually has, of all things, a tragic ending.” PhotographyAll ThingsMachinesSeriesIncrediblesProductionsScoreTragicEditingAnonymityFiringSuperbMost RomanticCylindersTragic Endings Author:Christopher Nolan
“With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.” ThinkingMindDoneHandsKnowingPhotographyMachinesEssenceCamerasPhotographerFlashEditingWorthless Author:Walker Evans
“The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.” MadeResultsSeriousApproachPhotographyGunMachinesBe GoodMachine Guns Author:Ansel Adams