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“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.”

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Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.”

Ideas Use Shows Reality Used Products Approach Photography Aspect Tools Sells Propaganda Drowning

Author:Martin Parr

“My paintings have an ongoing dialogue with photography. There are many painters who would say the same, I'm sure. The difference is that I'm thinking more about the temporal aspect of photography, rather than the visual.”

Thinking Differences Painting Photography Aspect Dialogue Painter Visuals Ongoing

Author:James Nares

“To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you make the exposure, you're always looking backwards in time. I like that aspect of photography.”

Film Photography Aspect Photographer Looking Back Backwards Exposure Exposing Retrospective

Author:John Sexton

“I think one of the aspects of photography that remains for me is I find the process still frustrating. The counter to that is that it's still very exciting. If you didn't have the frustration, you wouldn't have the excitement. If you didn't have the disappointment, you wouldn't have the magical intoxication of this process working.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Process Photography Aspect Exciting Remains Photographer Disappointment Excitement Frustration Frustrating Intoxication

Author:John Sexton

“The durational aspect of video art is very different from photography or sculpture. The idea of looping things interferes with that a little bit. It eliminates that finite viewing period which I think is not so expressive sometimes.”

Thinking Littles Art Ideas Different Sometimes Bits Periods Photography Little Bit Art Is Aspect Video Interfere Finite Sculpture Expressive

Author:Marco Brambilla

“From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.”

Moments Photography Aspect Letters Genre Prose Verses Exterior Aspects Of Life

Author:Paul Valery

“Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?”

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Author:Pablo Picasso

“Photography, precisely because it can only be produced in the present and because it is based on what exists objectively before the camera, takes its place as the most satisfactory medium for registering objective life in all its aspects, and from this comes its documental value. If to this is added sensibility and understanding and, above all, a clear orientation as to the place it should have in the field of historical development, I believe that the result is something worthy of a place in social production, to which we should all contribute.”

“Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental creation and the affirmation of a personality. What is marvelous about a photograph is that its possibilities are infinite; there aren't any subjects 'done to death'.”

Done Seems Easy Forget Subjects Creation Possibility Personality Photography Aspect Infinite Photograph Marvelous Affirmation

Author:Gisele Freund

“The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of photography with death. Immobility and silence are not only two objective aspects of death, they are also its main symbols, they figure it.”

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Author:Christian Metz

“All aspects of photography interest me and I feel for the female body the same curiosity and the same love as for a landscape, a face or anything else which interests me. In any case, the nude is a form of landscape. There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment, on the mood of the model.”

Feels Reason Moments Body Faces Form Interest Cases Depends Photography Models Female Aspect Curiosity Photograph Mood Landscape No Reason Female Body Same Love

Author:Jeanloup Sieff

“I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.”

World Trying Photography Aspect

Author:Ryan McGinley

“Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.”

Language Communication Photography Aspect Expressive Factual

Author:Ansel Adams

“There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind the camera as about what is in front of it.”

Art Behinds Fronts Photography Aspect Cameras Photographer Landscape Subjective

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.”

Reality Black White Imagine Magic Photography Aspect Visuals Transition Black And White Departure Black And White Photography

Book:The role of the artist in conservation

Source: The role of the artist in conservation

“I want to allow others to reveal and celebrate aspects of themselves that are usually hidden. My camera is a witness. It holds a light up for my subjects to help them feel their own essence, and gives them the courage to collaborate in the recording of these revelations.”

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Author:Joyce Tenneson

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