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“You come to the photograph as an aesthetic object with no context... Then you step in and read the text and then out again to revisit the image in a completely different way. I'm interested in that space between text and image. The piece becomes the negative space between the two.”

Way Two Different Space Steps Pieces Objects Negative Photograph Different Ways Aesthetic Space Between Negative Space

Author:Taryn Simon

“The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting - photography is more demanding when it doesn't pretend to know.”

Knows Members Photography Claims Photograph Clubs Participants

Author:Taryn Simon

“I started to concentrate more upon how the viewer looks at photographs... I would insert my own text or my own specific reading of the image to give the viewer something they might not interpret or surmise, due to their educated way of looking at images, and reading them for their emotional, psychological, and/or sociological values. So I would start to interject these things that the photograph would not speak of and that I felt needed to be revealed, but that couldn't be revealed from just looking at an image.”

Way Giving Looks Might Values Reading Speak Felt My Own Emotional Needed Photograph Dues Psychological Educated Viewers Insert Sociological

Author:Lorna Simpson

“If you could see a photograph of what it took to make an advertising photograph - things you don't think about, like the photo assistant carefully arranging the meatballs - the degree of unnaturalness would be astonishing. Yet it produces an image that looks natural, and is orchestrated to provoke basic emotional responses.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Would Be Natural Produce Emotional Degrees Response Photograph Advertising Provoking Astonishing Assistants Arranging Emotional Response Meatballs

Author:Sandy Skoglund

“I think I'm really fortunate to be an installation artist who is heavily invested in photography: I don't have the emotional problems with the loss of work that some installation artists have. The photographs wouldn't exist without the installation... but at the same time, I think I'd kill myself if I only did installations. There's something deeply tragic about doing work that you know is temporal.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Problem Artist Loss Emotional Photography Photograph Fortunate Tragic Installation Emotional Problems

Author:Sandy Skoglund

“To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.”

Has Beens Art Subjects Photography Transformation Depth Photograph Available Spectators

Author:Michael Snow

“I'm very much against photographs being framed and treated with reverence and signed and sold as works of art. They aren't. They should be seen in a magazine or a book and then be used to wrap up the fish and chucked away.”

Should Art Book Used Photograph Fishes Treated Magazines Works Of Art Reverence Wraps Framed

Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

“I think it is quite wrong to photograph, for example, Garbo, if she doesn't want to be photographed. Now I would have loved to photograph her, but she obviously didn't want to be photographed so I didn't follow it up. Then somebody will photograph her walking down the street because she has to walk down the street, and I mind that sort of intrusion. I think this is horrible.”

Ifs Thinking Want Mind Walks Streets Example Walking Photograph Horrible Intrusion Garbo

Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

“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.”

People Thinking Should Believe Looks I Believe Easy Simple Laughing Taken Ordinary Photographer Photograph Touched Ordinary People Wince

Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

“I'm not a great one for chatting people up, because it's phony. I don't want people to feel at ease. You want a bit of edge. There are quite long, agonized silences. I love it. Something strange might happen. I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It's very cruel.”

People Want Feels Mean Long Might Happens Bits Silence Strange Photograph Edges Ease Things To Do Nasty Phony Great Ones Chatting

Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

“... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated - as though it had created itself.”

Made Self Film Photography Mark Cameras Photograph Video Makers Clicks Shutters

Author:Abigail Solomon-Godeau

“In a world where the 2 billionth photograph has been uploaded to Flickr, which looks like an Eggleston picture! How do you deal with making photographs with the tens of thousands of photographs being uploaded to Facebook every second, how do you manage that? How do you contribute to that? What's the point?”

World Looks Has Beens Deals Photograph Manage Every Second Flickr

Author:Alec Soth

“Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of the 1940s and 50s were no such thing. Ansell Adams would slap a red filter on his lens, then spend three days burning and dodging in the dark room, making his prints. That's a manipulation. Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.”

People Three Dark Rooms Red Argument Photograph Dues Burning Manipulation Print Burned Lenses Slap Filters Dark Room Andrea Cartier Henri Cartier Bresson

Author:Joel Sternfeld

“Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a frame to the world, it's an interpretation. I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame. You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. There's an infinite number of ways you can do this: photographs have always been authored.”

People World Way Persons Two Facts Left Can Do Numbers Degrees Photography Capable Thirds Murder Infinite Cameras Photograph Subtle Manipulation Interpretation Homeless Third Person

Author:Joel Sternfeld

“I'm interested in photographs that have no personal signature.”

Photograph Signatures

Author:Thomas Struth

“The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.”

Models Function Photograph Metaphor Cease Propose

Author:Thomas Struth

“For me, making a photograph is mostly an intellectual process of understanding people or cities and their historical and phenomenological connections. At that point the photo is almost made, and all that remains is the mechanical process.”

People Made Process Understanding Cities Intellectual Connections Remains Historical Photograph All That Remains

Author:Thomas Struth

“[When] I am taking a photograph, I am conscious that I am constructing images rather than taking snapshots. Since I do not take rapid photographs it is in this respect like a painting which takes a long time where you are very aware of what you are doing in the process. Exposure is only the final act of making the image as a photograph.”

Long Process Painting Long Time Conscious Finals Photograph Where You Are Exposure Rapids Snapshots

Author:Thomas Struth

“Our editors, I'm afraid, have come to believe that the photograph is an end in itself. They've forgotten that the photograph is only the subsidiary, the little brother, of the word.”

Believe Littles Ends Brother Photograph Forgotten Editors Little Brother

Author:Roy Stryker

“Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway.”

Trying Believe Laughing Knowing Jokes Photograph Keep Trying Seducing Dummy Knowing Better

Author:Larry Sultan

“What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of veracity, that they look like life rather than movie stills. I don't want them to look fabricated.”

Want Looks Stills Important Goes On Illusion Photograph Appearance Documents What's Important Veracity

Author:Larry Sultan

“I'm very interested in making the photographs look real, but a lot of them are highly synthetic. They're hybrids, located somewhere between the found and the constructed.”

Looks Real Found Photograph Hybrid Synthetic

Author:Larry Sultan

“The person who looks at a photograph as a complete picture, unable to say anything about anything except the facts which existed at the moment of exposure, does not see very far.”

Looks Persons Doe Moments Facts Photograph Say Anything Exposure

Author:Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

“The relationship I have with my mother now, and photographing her in front of the grave, it opens up discussions, and dealings with the conversations with my mother about, when I was little, how we lived and about suicide and talking about it, so it's something positive, it brought us more together, because people might never discuss that. Some families never go near certain subjects because it's too hurtful or too close or too dangerous. But within doing these photographs, I also wanted to open up a conversation with her about certain things about life.”

People Littles Might Wanted Together Mother Certain Talking Subjects Dangerous Fronts Conversation Suicide Photograph Graves Discussion Hurtful Dealings

Author:Jurgen Teller

“The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera, but never lie about the intentions behind the camera.”

Lying Behinds Fronts Cameras Intention Photograph Authenticity Manipulate Never Lie

Author:Wolfgang Tillmans

“A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.”

Body Mere Photograph Fragments Distillation

Author:Shomei Tomatsu

“A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an autarchy, a dictatorship.”

Firsts Individual Television Reflection Photograph Individuality Interpretation Permit Dictatorship Participation

Author:Oliviero Toscani

“My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that extends my natural ability and desire for meaningful organization. I need it to survive.”

Needs Desire Natural Ability Organization Cameras Instinct Photograph Meaningful Urges Disorder Preservation Natural Ability

Author:Arthur Tress

“The photographic image has great possibilities. The magical photograph attempts to go beyond the immediate context of the recorded experience into the realm of the indefinable. The photographer as magician is acutely aware of the multiplicity of associations submerged in the appearance of the objective world.”

World Possibility Photographer Photograph Appearance Objectives Realms Association Magician Multiplicity Submerged Indefinable

Author:Arthur Tress

“There was a time when photographers were thought to be socially secondary, and, hence, not dangerous. Lincoln was more important than Brady. It didn't occur to anyone to worry about the manner in which a photograph was taken.”

Important Worry Taken Dangerous Photographer Photograph Brady

Author:George W. S. Trow

“I don't consider [my] photographs fashion photographs. The photographs were for fashion, but at the same time they had an ulterior motive, something more to do with the world in general.”

World Fashion Photograph Motive Ulterior Motive

Author:Deborah Turbeville

“When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.”

Art Might Photograph Magazines Journalistic

Author:Gillian Wearing

“The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.”

Eye Photograph Viewers Compact

Author:Alex Webb

“It's not that I don't care about content, but content is not the only way a photograph has meaning.”

Way Care Photograph Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:James Welling

“A photograph records both the thing in front of the camera and the conditions of its making... A photograph is also a document of the state of mind of the photographer. And if you were to extend the idea of the set-up photograph beyond just physically setting up the picture, I would argue that the photographer wills the picture into being.”

Ifs Mind Ideas States Records Conditions Fronts Cameras Photographer Photograph Arguing Setting Settings State Of Mind Documents

Author:James Welling

“Even an ugly, abject photograph bears the recording of its making... my goal [is] to create dense objects, works in which many lines of thought converge.”

Goal Lines Objects Bears Photograph Ugly Dense

Author:James Welling

“I went through a long period when I thought my photographs were not visible - on the wall, but not visible.”

Long Wall Periods Photograph Visible

Author:Jack Welpott

“Part of the fascination that photography holds is its ability to unlock secrets kept even from ourselves. Like dreams, the photograph can uncork a heady bouquet of recognition which can escape into the cognitive world.”

World Dream Ability Secret Photography Photograph Recognition Fascination Cognitive Bouquets

Author:Jack Welpott

“I often had to pass over photographs because in a mass of animals invariably one would be wandering in the wrong direction, thereby disrupting the pattern I was trying to achieve. Today the ability to digitally alter this disruption is at hand.”

Trying Hands Would Be Today Ability Animal Achieve Mass Photograph Patterns Wander Disruption Wrong Direction

Author:Art Wolfe

“The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber.”

Past Photography Concepts Photograph Discussion Devices Aesthetic Stopping Fragments Amber Concept Of Time

Author:Peter Wollen

“I really feel lovely when I get up with my sweetheart. When I depart a photograph shoot, as a result of someway miracles have been labored.”

Feels Has Beens Results Miracle Photograph Lovely Get Up Sweetheart My Sweetheart

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“Light gesture and color of the key compliments of any photograph. Light and color are obvious, but it is just her that is the most important. There is gesture in everything. It's up to you to find a gesture that is most telling.”

Important Light Color Keys Photograph Obvious Compliment Gestures Up To You Light And Color

Author:Jay Maisel

“I never photograph reality.”

Reality Photograph

Author:Sarah Moon

“I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.”

Want Interest Photograph Being Famous

Author:David LaChapelle

“A photographer who does not know how to translate his feelings and ideas into a graphically satisfactory form is bound to produce ineffective photographs, no matter how idealistic, compassionate, sensitive or imaginative he may be. For in order to be considered good, a photograph must not only say something worthwhile, it must say it well.”

Knows Wells May Doe Ideas Matter Feelings Form Order Know How Produce Bounds Photographer Photograph Sensitive Compassionate Worthwhile Translate Imaginative Idealistic

Author:Andreas Feininger

“For me, what was important was to record everything I saw around me, and to do this as methodically as possible. In these circumstances a good photograph is a picture that comes as close as possible to reality. But the camera never manages to record what your eyes see, or what you feel at the moment. The camera always creates a new reality.”

Feels Important Moments Reality Eye Records Saws Circumstances Cameras Photograph Manage

Book:Let there be light: the Rwanda Project 1994-1998

Source: Let there be light: the Rwanda Project 1994-1998

“Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic and so long as there are people who love beautiful lies and deception... Every modern cultured man must wage war against art, as against opium... Photograph and be photographed.”

People Men Long Art War Beautiful Lying Love Is Modern Photograph Deception Modern Life Opium Mania Beautiful Lies

Author:Alexander Rodchenko

“Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.”

Events Photography Presses Photograph Currents Naked Artistic Landscape Current Events

Author:Alexander Rodchenko

“Exile is a series of photographs without texts.”

Series Photograph Exile

Author:William J. Mitchell

“In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get.”

Men Photograph Access Afghanistan

Author:Lynsey Addario

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