“In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.” PhotographyCamerasAbstractIncapableStrictIntegrationSynthetic Author:Ansel Adams
“If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.” IfsGivingSeriousPhotographyConvictionPainterAbstractColour Author:E. J. Hughes
“At Columbia there's no performing arts department, so I was searching for it everywhere I could, and I took some photography classes and I ended up becoming fascinated with Eastern Religion, and ultimately it seemed to encompass the more abstract mind that I have.” MindArtClassBecomingPhotographyPerformingAbstractDepartmentFascinatedEasternColumbiaPerforming Arts Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“By itself photography cannot deal with the unseen, the remote, the internal, the abstract, it does not speak of Man, only of a man ; not of Tree, only a tree.” MenDoeSpeakDealsTreePhotographyAbstractInternalsUnseen Book:Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.)” IdeasRecordsPhotographyPhotographCardsTitlesPhrasesAbstractInches Author:Mel Bochner
“I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.” RealityOrderBitsPhotographyEmbraceChaosAbstract Author:Ralph Gibson
“The original interest in making pictures that don't directly depict came around '97 or '98, when I felt there was such an acceleration of images in the world, and that was before Flickr and so on. So I felt a need to slow down how one consumes photographs. With the abstract pictures, I was engaged in trying to find new images, but in practice, it was a bit like throwing a wrench in the spokes. The omnipresence of photography is at a level that it has never been in the history of the world. I feel really curious to now reengage and see what the camera can do for me.” WorldTryingInterestPhotographyPhotographCuriousAbstractSlow DownWorld History Author:Wolfgang Tillmans