“Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with the fairy-tale world of childhood, a never-ending journey through great and small, through variations and the realm of illusions and appearances, a labyrinthine and specular place of multitudes and simulation.” ThinkingWorldWonderfulMagicJourneyChildhoodAwarenessAdventurePhotographyIllusionAdultsAppearanceTalesManageRealmsFairyFairy TaleToysMultitudesVariationNever EndingSimulationGreat Adventure Author:Luigi Ghirri
“What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty of the instant and of these surprising points of view that appear for a brief moment and never return; those are what make photography an art.” ArtImportantMomentsViewsAwarenessReturnPhotographyNotionPoint Of ViewInstantSurprisingBrief Moments Author:Raoul Hausmann
“I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness.” DesireAwarenessPhotographyMachinesCamerasSlaveConquer Author:Todd Walker
“Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.” SometimesVoiceGroupsAwarenessPhotographyPhotographerPhotographLureInspirational PhotographySmall VoicePhotojournalistsBlack And White PhotographyColor Photography Book:W. Eugene Smith, master of the photographic essay Source: W. Eugene Smith, master of the photographic essay
“To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.” PeopleWorldWellsSelfRealitySpiritualDifficultRealizingAwarenessSourcePhotographyReflectionDirectMajorityPhotographFactualSpiritual Awareness Author:Ansel Adams