“I wanted to be a car mechanic and I wanted to race cars and the idea of trying to make something out of my life wasn't really a priority. But the accident allowed me to apply myself at school. I got great grades. Eventually I got very excited about anthropology and about social sciences and psychology, and I was able to push my photography even further and eventually discovered film and film schools.” TryingIdeasAbleWantedSchoolFilmSocialRacePsychologyCarPhotographyExcitedAccidentsPrioritiesGradesMechanicAnthropologySocial ScienceFilm SchoolRace Car Author:George Lucas
“I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography.” TakenExpressionPhotographyUnderstoodPhotographerAccidentsAssistants Author:Peter Lindbergh
“Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless.” StillsSilenceMiddleCryChangedPhotographyPhotographSpeedAccidentsIntriguingMotion Pictures Author:Jean Cocteau
“While photography to Cartier-Bresson is constantly an intuitive process, it is never purely instinctive. It is founded on continuous intellection, on ceaseless consideration during all moments previous to, or preparatory for, the pressing. It does not only operate in the blinding flash of a moment seized; it works all the time. The snatched picture merely cuts across the vein of observable incident or accident which is always beating, whether or not the fingers actually press.” DoeMomentsProcessCuttingPhotographyPressesFingersAccidentsConsiderationFlashVeinsIntuitiveIncidentsCartier Author:Lincoln Kirstein
“Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.” MistakePhotographyBoundsAccidents Author:Taryn Simon
“I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.” KnowsMadePhotographyPhotographerAccidents Author:Richard Avedon
“A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.” PhotographyConceptsPhotographerPhotographAccidents Author:Ansel Adams
“A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.” MomentsPhotographyConceptsNegativePhotographAccidentsExposure Author:Ansel Adams