“Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and blue white. Black sunflowers against a white sky - what a travesty!” DoeFormBlackWhiteSkyPhotographyOrdinaryRelationBlueMessToneColourYellowPlatesLensesSunflowerTravesty Author:Walter J. Phillips
“If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.” IfsMeanArtPerfectPowerfulIdentityPhotographyOrdinaryAspectAbsolutesDisappearDrawingClosestScrutinyResemblanceAbsolute TruthMicroscopesPhotogenic Author:Edgar Allan Poe
“I think there is an element of magic in photography - light, chemistry, precious metals - a certain alchemy. You can wield a camera like a magic wand almost. Murmur the right words and you can conjure up proof of a dream. I believe in wonder. I look for it in my life every day; I find it in the most ordinary things.” ThinkingBelieveLooksDreamLightCertainI BelieveWonderMagicElementsPhotographyOrdinaryCamerasI Believe InProofChemistryMetalsAlchemyWandsRight WordsOrdinary ThingsMagic WandsPrecious Metal Author:Keith Carter
“There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.” WorldKindTwoLife IsSourcePhotographyOrdinaryPhotographerStudiosFormerLatterThings In LifeNourishment Author:Ernst Haas
“For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately, it is a matter of the specialness of the ordinary.” PeopleMatterPhotographyOrdinaryImportanceSpecialness Author:Rineke Dijkstra
“Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.” PhotographyOrdinaryReproductionVerge Author:Stephen Shore
“It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a week. It is the democratic art, i.e. technical skill is practically eliminated - the more foolproof cameras become with focusing and exposure gadgets the better - and artistic quality depends only on choice of subject.” PersonsArtChoicesQualityWeekSubjectsDependsSkillsPhotographyOrdinaryCamerasDemocraticTechniquePityArtisticExposureImpatientCarelessGadgetsOrdinary PersonTechnical SkillsFoolproof Author:W. H. Auden
“Before the first press pictures, the ordinary man would visualize only those events that took place near him, on his street or in his village. Photography opened a window. As the reader's outlook expanded, the world began to shrink.” MenWorldFirstsStreetsEventsReaderPhotographyOrdinaryWindowPressesVillageOutlookShrinksOrdinary Man Author:Gisele Freund
“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
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” LifeInspirationalDifferentPlayMotivationalPurposeVisionFashionInspireIntegrityCreaturesPhotographyOrdinarySlavePhotographerMakeupDaringImaginativeCommonplaceBeing DifferentNonconformityPhotography By PhotographersGreat VisionFeeling StuckBeing WeirdDaring To Be Great Author:Cecil Beaton
“"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