“I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously.” WellsBookOrdinaryFellowsPhotographVery Good Author:Norman Mailer
“The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.” PeopleOrderOrdinaryPhotographFamiliarFetish Author:Christian Metz
“I never wanted to make portraits - to photograph celebrities, beautiful people, beautiful landscapes, beautiful buildings, or people in distressing situations.... I have always been interested in everyman - average, ordinary people in everyday situations.” PeopleWantedBeautifulSituationBuildingOrdinaryEverydayPhotographAverageLandscapePortraitsOrdinary PeopleBeautiful PeopleDistressingEverymanBeautiful Landscapes Author:Ray Metzker
“I believe that photographs should be simple technically, and easy to look at. They shouldn't be directed at other photographers; their point is to make ordinary people react - to laugh, or to see something they hadn't taken in before, or to be touched. But not to wince, I think.” PeopleThinkingShouldBelieveLooksI BelieveEasySimpleLaughingTakenOrdinaryPhotographerPhotographTouchedOrdinary PeopleWince Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
“It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.” NeedsArtImaginationVisionLearningPhotographyOrdinaryExtraordinaryPhotographerPhotographInventionPainterPhotography By PhotographersInspirational PhotographyGreat PhotographyStreet PhotographyArt PhotographyGood Photography Author:David Bailey
“Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.” LittlesWholeStoriesHouseHoursEventsOrdinaryRemainsLifetimePhotographBonesRuinsClockOutcomesDozenBurnedFurnitureOrdinary Things Book:The God of Small Things Source: The God of Small Things
“A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so.” MenHandsHouseDoorsOrdinarySellsPhotographFiftyHookChrome Book:Beginners Source: Beginners
“A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.” IfsMenLooksFacesActingOrdinaryPhotographRingsJust BeingClownOrdinary ManSad Face Author:Enid Blyton
“"You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene before, but never like that." It is the kind of photography that relies for its strengths not on special equipment or effects but on the intensity of the photographer's seeing. It is the kind of photography in which the raw materials-light, space, and shape-are arranged in a meaningful and even universal way that gives grace to ordinary objects."” IfsKnowsWayGivingKindLightSpaceTakenGraceSeeingSpecialEffectsObjectsMaterialsSceneShapesPhotographyOrdinaryUniversalPhotographerPhotographMeaningfulRelyIntensityEquipmentRaw Materials Author:Sam Abell