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“I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.”

People Years Looks Next Historical Photograph Next Day

Author:Catherine Opie

“You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)”

Art Pieces Land Strange Photograph Sculptors Exhibitions

Author:Dennis Oppenheim

“[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.”

Art Communication Photograph Radical

Author:Dennis Oppenheim

“The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.”

Giving Ideas Force Constant Photograph Pictorial Rectangles

Author:Dennis Oppenheim

“My mother said that when I was young I was constantly saying, Look at this - Look at that. I think that taking pictures must be my way of asking people to Look at this - Look at that. If my photographs make the viewer feel what I did when I first took them - Isn't this funny... terrible... moving... beautiful? - then I've accomplished my purpose.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Feels Firsts Looks Said Beautiful Moving Young Mother Purpose Terrible Asking Photograph My Way Accomplished Viewers Taking Pictures

Book:A Photo Journal

Source: A Photo Journal

“My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement that became static.”

Movement Cameras Constant Photograph Instant Capture Static

Book:Clinton is innocent

Source: Clinton is innocent

“[A photograph] should do something to the beholder; either give a more complete appreciation of beauty, or, if nothing else, even a good mental kick in the pants.”

Ifs Giving Should Photograph Appreciation Kicks Good Man Pants Beholder

Author:Paul Outerbridge

“Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense, their negatives), they are also subject to further duplication, either through the procedures of printing or as objects of still other photographs.”

Stills Subjects Objects Photograph Endless Chains Links Procedures Printing Duplicate Duplication

Book:Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture

Source: Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture

“I set a discipline for myself to return every afternoon and take photographs like Edward Weston: f22, full sun, big set squares, big circles. I would smoke a joint with some hippies on the grass, then go do some more pictures.”

Bigs Sun Return Discipline Photograph Circles Smoke Grass Squares Afternoon Joints Hippie

Author:Max Pam

“[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).”

Stills Photograph Passing Passings Trading Dross

Author:Tod Papageorge

“By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the same surprise... both strike us as if they were simultaneously remembrances and revelations.”

Ifs Moments Fiction Subjects Surprise Photograph Strikes Revelations Compelling Remembrance Fidelity

Author:Tod Papageorge

“Ansel [Adams] always jumped over the fence to photograph, walked past the garbage. He always looked to get an immaculate view, and I spent my life stepping back to include the garbage in my photographic view.”

Past Views Photograph Fence Garbage Immaculate Stepping Back

Author:Rondal Partridge

“You have to bring to the photograph a prejudice about something, and I'm prejudiced against farmers who tie dead animals on fences. Therefore, I can make a meaningful photograph.”

I Can Animal Prejudice Photograph Meaningful Ties Farmers Fence

Author:Rondal Partridge

“So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good.”

People Thinking Want Fashion Building Mountain Models Photograph Fashion Model

Author:Rondal Partridge

“I have an abiding faith in the fact that time will change the value of photographs. What you see today may be so familiar to everyone that they don't immediately appreciate or value it.”

May Facts Today Values Appreciate Photograph Familiar Abiding Abiding Faith

Author:Rondal Partridge

“Stop and go: always on some journey. My bounty is a photograph or two.”

Two Journey Photograph Bounty

Author:Sylvia Plachy

“I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial pages.... So I began to use a camera to make fake photographs of the ads. By re-photographing a magazine page and then developing the film in a cheap lab, the photos came out very strange.”

People Use Jobs Film Sports Tears Strange Pages Cameras Fortune Photograph Magazines Developing Fake Department Ads Sheets Labs Delivering Editorials Sports Illustrated

Author:Richard Prince

“When you look at pornography, the women become objects, whereas what I'm trying to do is make the person in the photograph as important as their body. And obviously, I like tits and arse, because I just do. I like the sex of taking photographs.”

Trying Looks Persons Important Body Sex Objects Photograph Pornography Arses

Author:Rankin

“At the end of the day, it's only a photograph and if someone is going to get really upset about a photograph, then they have a lot of issues. I just roll with it and see what happens.”

Ifs Ends Happens Issues Photograph Upset The End Of The Day Get Real

Author:Rankin

“I always used to say to my ex-girlfriends that I could never take a good photograph of them, because there was too much of an intimacy between us, but actually the real thing is, if there's a proper intimacy between you... I find it really compelling and exciting - it's quite good foreplay.”

Ifs Real Used Too Much Exciting Photograph Intimacy Girlfriend Compelling Exes Real Things Ex Girlfriend

Author:Rankin

“Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because of their photographic qualities.”

Trying Art Use Artist Quality Photography Endure Photograph Mediums

Book:Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object

Source: Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object

“I can photograph someone if I can touch them.”

Ifs I Can Photograph

Author:Eugene Richards

“...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war, by incidents of genocide, by hunger. A more realistic assessment of photography's value is to point out that it is illustrative of what's going on, that it provides a record of history, that photographs can prompt dialogue.”

Ifs Believe War Values Records Photography Photographer Photograph Hunger Dialogue Realistic Genocide Incidents Assessment Pretentious Prompts

Author:Eugene Richards

“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.”

Want Helping Reality Happens Wanted America Sex Boys Rocks Drug Happenings Photograph Rock N Roll Make It Happen Sex Drugs

Author:Bob Richardson

“The photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it.”

World Ideas Harder Photograph Simulate

Book:In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world

Source: In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world

“We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking at entry points to information and to the world in which the image was made.”

People World Firsts Made Ideas Steps Information Photograph Abandon First Steps Entry

Author:Fred Ritchin

“We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because it confirms our sense of omnipresence as well as the validity of the material world.”

World Wells Levels Materials Photograph Have Faith Validity Material World

Book:In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world

Source: In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world

“The decisive moment, the popular Henri Cartier-Bresson approach to photography in which a scene is stopped and depicted at a certain point of high visual drama, is now possible to achieve at any time. One's photographs, years later, may be retroactively rephotographed by repositioning the photographer or the subject of the photograph, or by adding elements that were never there before but now are made to exist concurrently in a newly elastic sense of space and time.”

Source: In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world

“The question is not whether a picture is good, in some formal, technical sense, but, does it mean what I need it to mean? Writers can edit sentences that may be well-crafted but that don't express an intended thought. But in photography, there are no revisions: A photograph is in or it's out, and the photographer must live with the consequences of his or her choices.”

Needs Wells May Mean Doe Choices Photography Consequence Photographer Photograph Sentences Formal Edits Revision

Author:Thomas Roma

“I approached photography the only way that I knew how to approach anything: as a job. I would get up, photograph all morning, stop and have lunch, and then, photograph all afternoon. I didn't think that I had to wait for some inspiration.”

Thinking Way Inspiration Jobs Waiting Morning Approach Photography Photograph Get Up Lunch Afternoon

Author:Thomas Roma

“Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.”

Moments Attention Taken Photograph Following Being True Instant Spurs Too Good To Be True Spur Of The Moment

Author:Willy Ronis

“In my philosophy, the meaning of life derives from the people one has known and loved. I have met my share of evil people and know what they are capable of - I was at the liberation of Dachau - but I have always held that evil is not inherent in men and women. I still believe that within a caring society, only the best people will flourish. That is the spirit that has moved me to photograph.”

“The question at hand is the danger posed to truth by computer-manipulated photographic imagery. How do we approach this question in a period in which the veracity of even the straight, unmanipulated photograph has been under attack for a couple of decades.”

Has Beens Hands Danger Couple Periods Computer Approach Photograph Decades Imagery Veracity

Author:Martha Rosler

“How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?”

Ifs Way Stories Next Knowing Happened Photograph Documentaries Follow Up

Author:Martha Rosler

“...a photographer must be aware of and concerned about the words that accompany a picture. These words should be considered as carefully as the lighting, exposure and composition of the photograph.”

Should Concerned Photographer Photograph Composition Exposure Lighting Accompany

Author:Arthur Rothstein

“After I have photographed the way I like to, I feel as I might if I had been making love all day, marvelous and exhausted and wanting to collapse on the floor in a heap. That's why I can't photograph just anybody, and why it's so hard to photograph people on assignment; it's like going to bed with someone not of my choosing.”

People Ifs Way Feels I Can Hard Might Bed Photograph Collapse Making Love Marvelous Exhausted Assignments

Author:Eva Rubinstein

“What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over years. It is a monologue trying to become a conversation, an offering, an alibi, a salute.”

Trying Years Dream Conversation Notes Photograph Silver Offering Subconscious Fragments Salute Monologues Lucid Dreaming

Author:Eva Rubinstein

“I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same way I would take photographs of a plaster bust.”

People Way Believe I Believe Photography Photograph Surface Portraits Plasters

Author:Thomas Ruff

“Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality.”

Stills Reality Generations Models Photograph My Generation Depiction

Author:Thomas Ruff

“I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.”

Art Produce Training Photograph Artistic Academy

Author:Thomas Ruff

“You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always something beside it.”

World Whole Fronts Photography Cameras Photograph Whole World

Author:Thomas Ruff

“I still dream of the day when I will take a photograph so beautiful that it can be called love.”

Stills Dream Beautiful Photograph

Author:Jan Saudek

“No new photographs until all the old ones have been used up.”

Has Beens Used Photograph

Author:Joachim Schmid

“I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Lying Personality Amount Photograph Capture Small Amounts

Author:Martin Schoeller

“The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.”

Conditions Depends Messages Photograph Incomplete Utterance

Book:Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983

Source: Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983

“The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.”

Offers Photograph Objectives Assertion Objective Truth

Book:Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983

Source: Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983

“How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?”

Doe Social Memories Photography Historical Photograph Transformed Power Relationships

Book:Fish story

Source: Fish story

“I'm not modest about myself. I know for a fact that I am good. But good in the sense that I can put things together. I expound vociferously to students of architecture and photography, the significance of design. A photograph is a design in which you assemble thoughts in your mind.”

Knows Mind I Can Facts Together Design Students Photography Photograph Architecture Significance Modest

Author:Julius Shulman

“All aspects of photography interest me and I feel for the female body the same curiosity and the same love as for a landscape, a face or anything else which interests me. In any case, the nude is a form of landscape. There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment, on the mood of the model.”

Feels Reason Moments Body Faces Form Interest Cases Depends Photography Models Female Aspect Curiosity Photograph Mood Landscape No Reason Female Body Same Love

Author:Jeanloup Sieff

“There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful than any other photographs.”

Said Photography Absolutes Photograph Truthful Absolute Truth

Author:Taryn Simon

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