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“One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.”

“Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.”

Source: On photography

“Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.”

Important Order Painting Photograph Oil Drawing Despise Inferiors Impotence Watercolors Oil Painting Etching

Author:Paul Strand

“We don't take photographs with our cameras, we take them with our hearts and our minds. They are a reflection of ourselves...wha t we are and what we think.”

Thinking Mind Heart Reflection Cameras Photograph

Author:Arnold Newman

“Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.”

Looks May Stills Moments Moving Objects Flow Photograph Memorable Privileged Neat Slim

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.”

Littles Two Levels Seeing Influence Reflection Conscious Instinct Lifetime Photograph Hearing Shooting Unconscious Accumulation Little Time Conscious And Unconscious

Author:Arnold Newman

“After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was attempting to capture in words. I bought a Rolleiflex camera and began to take pictures of objects or structures that were used and abused by human hands”

Writing Humans Hands Might Used Objects Months Cameras Structure Photograph Flesh Capture Attempting Human Hands Used And Abused

Author:Wright Morris

“It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.”

Moments Photograph Characteristics Peculiar Moments In Time Single Mom

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and isolation from everything outside the rectangle, it can create another reality, an emotion that did not exist in the 'true' situation. It's the tension between these two realities that lends it strength.”

Two Reality Emotion Silence Situation Movement Photograph Tension Isolation Rectangles

Author:Richard Kalvar

“Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs.”

Thinking Hurt Photograph Vulnerability It Hurts

Author:Martin Parr

“You should make photographs with your heart, mind, eye & soul. The capture device is simply there to allow you to transfer your vision to a medium that you can share with others.”

Should Mind Heart Soul Eye Vision Share Photograph Mediums Devices Capture Transfers

Author:Bill Frakes

“Two factors thus emerge as requisites of success in the field of creative photography. First, the subject must be photogenic. Second, its re-creation in a photograph must be based upon technical knowledge, guided and supported by artsitic inspiration.”

Firsts Two Inspiration Creative Subjects Creation Fields Photography Photograph Factors Photogenic Technical Knowledge

Book:Feininger on Photography

Source: Feininger on Photography

“The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.”

Men He Man Photograph Alphabet Illiterate

Author:Walter Benjamin

“The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred”

World Moments Sacred Photograph Looking Back Floating Fleeting Fleeting Moments Poignancy

Book:The Human Street: Photographs

Source: The Human Street: Photographs

“A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.”

Certain Memories Century Pure Photography Intellectual Photograph Paradox Formulas Discourse Testimony Abolish Fugitive

Author:Roland Barthes

“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.”

People Seeing Photograph Subliminal

Author:Susan Sontag

“Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.”

Ideas Earth Powerful Known Taken Photograph Available Isolation New Ideas Sheer

Author:Fred Hoyle

“My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.”

Trying Dream Inspiration Concepts Cameras Photograph Invisible Glimpse

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said that photographs be damned for they bind no wounds. Yet, I reasoned, if my photographs could cause compassionate horror within the viewer, they might also prod the conscience of that viewer into taking action.”

Ifs Men Said Might Action Fall Causes Horror Conscience Cameras Intention Photograph Aids Wounds Fallen Compassionate Viewers Taking Action

Author:W. Eugene Smith

“I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.”

Wells Looks Body Moving Structure Photograph Gestures Nuance

Author:Carrie Mae Weems

“The more I photograph women, the less it is about transformation. Women are beautiful. All that really matters is enhancing that.”

Matter Beautiful Transformation Photograph

Author:Mario Testino

“Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.”

Doe Film Memories Photograph

Author:Milan Kundera

“There are parts of me I only recognize from photographs.”

Photograph

Author:Sarah Kay

“Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public or private, serious or funny, but that carry with them a reminder of community.”

May Enough Community Serious Photography Photographer Photograph Reminders

Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

“I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in 1975. He was thrilling to listen to. When you heard him speak, you felt that you were privy to such a rare mind. Even in small-talk, he spoke with perfect economy of language. His shoots with me were very collaborative and it was an incredible opportunity to be able to photograph him over the course of twenty years.”

Years Mind Firsts Able Courses Opportunity Speak Language Felt Perfect Economy Taken Heard First Time Twenties Incredibles Photograph Spokes Bangs Thrilling Small Talk Burroughs

Author:Kate Simon

“People believe pictures. It's a photograph that's in your passport, not a painting. Now, George Bernard Shaw said, 'I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.' That's what the power of photography is.”

People Believe Said Christ Painting Photography Photograph Passports Snapshots Bernard Shaw

Author:Philip Jones Griffiths

“I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath.”

Knows World Lasts Found Interest Doubt Objects Breaths Photograph No Doubt Found Objects

Author:Ansel Adams

“The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.”

Atheism Modern Photograph Positive Atheism

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”

People Important Photography Photographer Photograph Owners Boss Clicks Photography By Photographers Inspirational Photography Shutters Photo Shoots Great Photography Inspiring Photography Street Photography

Author:Alfred Eisenstaedt

“We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.”

World Moments Might Photography Photographer Photograph Significant Fleeting Succession Fleeting Moments

Author:Alfred Eisenstaedt

“I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.”

Vision Photograph

Author:Man Ray

“I don't usually give out advice or recipes, but you must let the person looking at the photograph go some of the way to finishing it. You should offer them a seed that will grow and open up their minds.”

Way Giving Should Mind Persons Grows Advice Offers Photograph Seeds Recipes Finishing Finishing It

Author:Robert Doisneau

“I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.”

Wanted Photograph

Author:David LaChapelle

“I used to take photographs just to remember people.”

People Remember Used Photograph

Author:Gus Van Sant

“Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.”

Art Love You Photograph What You Love Good Art

Author:Sally Mann

“Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.”

Stars Photograph Renaissance Antiquity God Image Warhol

Book:About modern art: critical essays, 1948-96

Source: About modern art: critical essays, 1948-96

“I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.”

Giving Country Bigs Inspiration Source Personality Photograph Admirer Vibes Source Of Inspiration Positive Vibes

Author:A. R. Rahman

“Life is a photograph too, so thank you,for not removing yourself from the picture just yet.”

Life Is Photograph

Author:Meggie Royer

“Having a boy play a girl (and when I say 'play a girl' I don't mean that he is represented as a girl, because he is represented as a young man) is complicated. He knows he's looking at photographs of a girl and copying those poses. So the audience sees him as a man, but he can only see himself as a woman, because that's the model he's looking at. It was a really interesting exchange.”

Knows Men Mean Play Young Girl Interesting Boys Audience Models Photograph Complicated Young Man Really Interesting Copying

Author:Collier Schorr

“Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable.”

Order Photography Structure Photographer Photograph Sentences Inevitable Comparison Grammar Imposing Incomprehension

Author:Stephen Shore

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.”

Way Feelings Photography Photographer Photograph Little Things Touching Captured Photography By Photographers Inspirational Photography Great Photography Inspiring Photography Street Photography Capturing A Moment Photography Color Photography Photography Love Professional Photographer

Author:Aaron Siskind

“It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. ... All photographs are memento mori. To take photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt”

Persons Art Moments Virtue Subjects Right Now Photography Photograph Nostalgia Vulnerability Touched Mortality Twilight Relentless Nostalgic Freezing Pathos Memento Mori Memento Mutability

Author:Susan Sontag

“A still photograph is something which you can always go back to. You can put it on your wall and look at it again and again. Because it is that frozen moment. I think it tends to burn into your psyche. It becomes ingrained in your mind. A powerful picture becomes iconic of a place or a time or a situation.”

Thinking Mind Looks Stills Moments Powerful Situation Wall Photograph Again And Again Frozen Iconic Your Wall

Author:Steve McCurry

“The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and remind herself that there is a subject so incalculably vast significance to humanity, about which virtually nothing is known because writers have not been mothers.”

Thinking Should Use Mother Humanity Known Records Subjects Notes Photograph Significance Tape Should I Journal Recorders

Author:Alicia Ostriker

“You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.”

Looks Made Deals Photograph

Author:Garry Winogrand

“If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.”

Ifs Home Wanted Hours Lines Six Library Photograph Locals Bored Aisle

Author:Matt Damon

“I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.”

Wells Bed Photograph Kitchen Mask Toys Desks Hooked Giraffe

Author:Joanna Lumley

“To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one’s right to photograph. You’re flexing that right.”

Photograph Flexing

Author:Trevor Paglen

“We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event in the world, and wants to record it, point at it…The problem with my work is that these images are really not of anything in that sense, they register only that which is incidental and peripheral to the implied it.”

World Want Persons Problem Records Events Assuming Photographer Photograph Register Implied

Author:Uta Barth

“It's not enough that [the photograph] is beautiful. If it doesn't move my heart, it won't move anyone else's heart.”

Ifs Heart Enough Beautiful Moving My Heart Photograph

Author:Rinko Kawauchi

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