Best photography & absolutes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Ifs Mean Art Perfect Powerful Identity Photography Ordinary Aspect Absolutes Disappear Drawing Closest Scrutiny Resemblance Absolute Truth Microscopes Photogenic

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“Photography's central role is to be the absolute medium of the day. It is fantastic that there is no longer any technical intimidation.”

Roles Photography Absolutes Mediums Fantastic Intimidation

Author:Martin Parr

“What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.”

Ifs Shows Artist Wish Perfect Subjects Photography Absolutes Paint Photographer Painter Portraits Fidelity Old Days

Author:Aubrey Beardsley

“Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.”

Way Film Simple Four Sky Color Photography Red Absolutes Blue Green Vulgar Lipstick Blue Sky Simple Words Foliage Color Photography

Author:Walker Evans

“Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.”

Mean Projects Photography Absolutes Our Time Appropriate Fidelity

Book:August Sander: photographs of an epoch, 1904-1959 : man of the twentieth century, Rhineland landscapes, nature studies, architectural and industrial photographs, images of Sardinia : [exhibition]

Source: August Sander: photographs of an epoch, 1904-1959 : man of the twentieth century, Rhineland landscapes, nature studies, architectural and industrial photographs, images of Sardinia : [exhibition]

“Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the principal which provided my starting point, once I had said to myself that if we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times in which those subjects live.”

Ifs Said Subjects Effects Pure Photography Absolutes Mirrors Starting Psychological Principal Portraits Starting Point Absolute Truth

Author:August Sander

“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

“I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you do if you draw badly. Now they teach it at the Royal College of Art and get grand about it. It's the only course there that I don't understand.”

People Ifs Thinking Art Courses Careers Teach College Photography Draws Absolutes Nonsense Royal

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

“One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty... absolute certainty.”

“Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need practice and application of what you've learned. My absolute conviction is that if you are working reasonably well the only important thing is to keep shooting...it doesn't matter whether you are making money or not. Keep working, because as you go through the process of working things begin to happen.”

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