“By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.” WorldFeelsPhotographyAvailableCrowdedDuplicate Book:On photography Source: On photography
“Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing.” WorldHumansMomentsFormSocialNumbersRecordsPhotographyCamerasRateAvailableDisappearDestroyedLandscapeDevicesThat MomentSocial LifeRate Of Change Book:On photography Source: On photography
“[Photography] can be tiny, on your phone, or it can be a billboard, or a film-sized projection, or printed in a magazine. I don't think we've been in a time before when so much photography is available in so many formats, when everybody is a photographer.” ThinkingFilmPhotographyPhotographerPhonesAvailableTinyMagazinesProjectionPrintedFormatBillboards Author:Christian Marclay
“Even a fellow with a camera has his favourite subjects, as we can see looking through the Kodak-albums of our friends. One amateur prefers the family group, another bathing scenes, another cows upon an alp, or kittens held upside down in the arms of a black-faced child. The tendency to choose one subject rather than another indicates the photographer's temperament. Nevertheless, his passion is for photography rather than for selection, a kitten will serve when no cows are available.” ChildrenPassionBlackGroupsSubjectsArmsScenePhotographyCamerasFellowsPhotographerAlbumsAvailableTendenciesCowsFavouriteNeverthelessSelectionTemperamentUpside DownKittenBathingAlpsKodak Author:E. M. Forster
“To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.” Has BeensArtSubjectsPhotographyTransformationDepthPhotographAvailableSpectators Author:Michael Snow
“As a teenager, I loved acting, painting, photography, and making films with my friend's Super 8 camera. But I always loved writing the best. I chose writing even before I knew poetry was available to me.” WritingFilmActingPaintingPhotographyMy FriendsCamerasAvailableTeenager Author:Denise Duhamel
“If the quality of professional materials continues to erode or even dries up, then many of us silver photographers would have to follow the digital tidal wave. It certainly wouldn't be the end of the world, but in my opinion, having no silver material available would be a huge loss to photography.” IfsWorldEndsWould BeLossQualityOpinionMaterialsHugePhotographyPhotographerWaveAvailableDigitalSilverEnd Of The WorldErodeTidal Waves Author:Michael Kenna
“Available light is any damn light that is available!” LightPhotographyPhotographerAvailableDamnPhotography And Light Author:W. Eugene Smith