Best photography & attention Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.”

People Two Different Form Literature Force Hours Pay Attention Comedy Groups Painting Photography Tragedy Pay Attention Screenplays Soundtracks

Author:Paula Patton

“Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.”

World Done Used Attention Seeing Photography Conscious Possession Active Mediums Substitutes Assured Supplements Employing

Author:Alain de Botton

“Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs.”

Ideas Term Poor Attention Mistake Photography Let Me Photograph Productions Excuse Excellent Immature Excellent Work

Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.”

Art Age Attention Photography Claims Merit

Author:Alexander Rodchenko

“I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you had never paid any attention to. And as you photograph, one of the benefits is that the world becomes a much richer, juicier, visual place. Sometimes it is almost unbearable — it is too interesting. And it isn’t always just the photos you take that matters. It is looking at the world and seeing things that you never photograph that could be photographs if you had the energy to keep taking pictures every second of your life.”

Ifs Thinking World Looks Said Sometimes Matter Energy Interesting Attention Seeing Benefits Photography Paid Photograph Visuals Unbearable Every Second Taking Pictures

Author:Saul Leiter

“... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.”

Wells Moments Chance Attention Photography Mysterious Existential Surrealism Intersections Decisive Moments

Author:Lee Friedlander

“But everyone cannot be there, and that is why photographers go there - to show them, to reach out and grab them and make them stop what they are doing and pay attention to what is going on - to create pictures powerful enough to overcome the diluting effects of the mass media and shake people out of their indifference - to protest and by the strength of that protest to make others protest.”

People Enough Shows Powerful Pay Attention Effects Media Photography Mass Overcoming Photographer Pay Attention Indifference Shakes Protest Reach Out Mass Media

Author:James Nachtwey

“Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as they tell only part of a story or tell it in distorted form, half the battle is won. Once he has conceded that photography is not a naturalistic medium of rendition and that striving for naturalism in a photograph is futile, he can turn his attention to using a camera to make more effective pictures.”

Stories Form Lying Turns Attention Half Battle Photography Cameras Majority Strive Photographer Photograph Convinced Mediums Naturalism Conceded

Author:Andreas Feininger

“It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity.”

People Knows Opportunity Process Attention Photography Pay Attention Great Opportunity

Author:Eugene Richards

“There are many reasons why photography does not attract the social and cultural attention it deserves. I would add one more which has received scant attention: it does not make a lot of noise. ... Perhaps photography would be more appreciated if camera shutters fired with the sound of a .357 Magnum.”

Ifs Doe Reason Would Be Social Sound Attention Photography Deserve Cameras Add Noise Reason Why Appreciated Shutters

Author:Bill Jay

“The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.”

Art Attention Photography Viewers

Author:Steven Pinker

“Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.”

Stills Attention Objects Photography Photographer Your Presence

Author:Minor White

“If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life. I mean people are going to say, You're crazy. Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.”

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Author:Diane Arbus

“I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in my own work. Indeed, I feel the simplest approach can often be most effective. A subject placed squarely in the center of the frame, if attention is not distracted from it by fussy surroundings, has a simple dignity which makes it all the more impressive.”

Source: Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

“Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the picture or through the human interest of the situation photographed or by calling our attention to some commonplace but fascinating thing we have never noticed before or it can be achieved by looking at an everyday thing in a new interesting way.”

“It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do this his pictures will command attention and have surprise quality.”

Ifs Way Can Do Attention Quality Responsibility Photography Surprise Photographer Command

Author:Alexey Brodovitch

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