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“For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.”

Facts Photography Shots Boring

Author:Martin Parr

“People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place is this mystical, magical place. The desert is also a very barren place, a very lonely place, a very boring, uneventful place.”

People Thinking Photography Illusion Lonely Boring Desert Mystical Barren Magical Places Lonely Places

Author:Richard Misrach

“I like there to be a joke in practically every photo I take. Nobody has the right to make photography boring.”

Photography Jokes Boring

Author:Norman Parkinson

“I find fashion magazines so incredibly boring . . . There still is no new photography and no new concerns.”

Fashion Photography Concern Boring

Author:Wolfgang Tillmans

“No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.”

Source: Along some rivers: photographs and conversations

“Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is frequently trivial, and metaphor can be dubious. But taken together, as in the best work of people like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, the three kinds of information strengthen each other and reinforce what we all work to keep intact - the affection for life.”

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