“What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose in most respects for thirty minutes with Edward Hopper’s painting Sunday Morning to thirty minutes on the street that was his subject; with Hopper’s vision we see more.” HelpingArtistVisionMorningStreetsMinutesSubjectsPaintingPhotographerThirtySundaySignificanceDiscoveringSunday Morning Author:Robert Adams
“With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!” TwoWarTogetherFilmBitsPaintingPhotographyShotsPhotographerPhotographIraqNewspapersExpertsChemicalsEditingIraq WarCrumbling Author:David Hockney
“With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process. A photograph does the opposite: It takes the world, and puts an order on it, simplifies it.” WorldDoeOrderProcessBuildingPaintingPhotographyOppositesComplexesPhotographerPhotographBlockSimplifyBuilding BlocksSynthetic Author:Stephen Shore
“Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.” YearsAgePaintingPhotographyHundredYears AgoPhotographerRidiculousPainterThis DayImitationAbstractionImitatingLaughable Author:Berenice Abbott
“Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.” PeopleThinkingFirstsBelieveHumansLooksUsedLyingImaginationHuman BeingsImagineSeaChangedPaintingSceneProjectsPhotographyCamerasPhotographerMediumsLandscapeViewersMy ImaginationBelievableNever LiePhotography Love Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists?” DoeArtistInterestPaintingPhotographerGlassesSnowPainterSandShelvesFenceSand Dunes Author:John Baldessari
“If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light.” IfsLightPaintingPhotographerComposition Author:Lola Alvarez Bravo
“My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images.” LightFatherPaintingSkillsPhotographerColourAttributesCompositionFormal Author:Patricia Piccinini
“When I was in art school, the photo kids were separated from the rest. If you did sculpture or painting or graphic design, you were all taking the same classes, but the photographers just went straight into photography.” IfsArtKidsSchoolClassDesignPaintingPhotographyPhotographerSculptureGraphicGraphic DesignArt School Author:Ryan McGinley