“Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.” PeopleWorldForceBrainEnvironmentPhotographyMusclesInteractingAdept Author:Deborah Copaken
“Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let us take a little vacation from this word.” LittlesArtSoulTodayBrainBreakPurePhotographyDefinitionsVacationVague Author:Ernst Haas
“Photography works upon the human eye: what is seen is reflected in the brain without the need for complicated thought. In this way the bourgeoisie takes advantage of the mental indolence of the masses and does good business as well.” WayNeedsHumansWellsDoeEyeBrainPhotographyMassAdvantageComplicatedBourgeoisieIndolenceGood BusinessHuman Eyes Author:Willi Munzenberg
“I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues as I ever was. Then there is the photographer-me, the one who has a camera in hand and a specific project in mind, and then the world suddenly jumps to life with potential pictures, as if a switch had been thrown in my brain and a different person is looking out of the same eyes.” PeopleIfsWorldMindPersonsTwoDifferentHandsSeemsEyeWalksBrainNormalProjectsPhotographyCamerasEverydayPhotographerVisualsThrownClueOblivious Author:Bill Jay
“'Ornithologists concluded that migratory birds take hundreds of naps as they fly; they also practice unilateral eye closure, in which one eye closes, thereby permitting half the brain to sleep.' Is this what happens when photographers close one eye to look through a viewfinder? If so, they might be operating with only half a brain. Perhaps that explains.” IfsLooksMightHappensEyeSleepBrainHalfPracticePhotographyBirdPhotographerNapsClosureMigratory Birds Author:Bill Jay
“No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas, and wouldas that befuddle our brains and creep into our dreams, always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.” WayMindHeartArtMatterDreamBodyRememberRoomsBrainAliveSubjectsDirectorsPhotographyArt IsPhotographerDisasterClientsCrapBad AssOur DreamsBad DayCreepsWhat You LoveAssignmentsStaying AliveObnoxiousHeart BeatMind BodyInspirational PhotographyHeart BeatingArt Director Author:Joe McNally
“The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye. It can see by invisible light. It can see in the past, present, and future. Instead of using the camera only to reproduce objects, I wanted to use it to make what is invisible to the eye - visible.” UseLightEyeWantedPastBrainObjectsPhotographyCamerasInvisibleFasterVisibleExtensionsPast PresentPast Present And Future Author:Wynn Bullock
“Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt.” HumansMayArtMatterFeltBrainSeeingMysteryTalentTastePhotographyLeavingPhotographerDelightReputationObservationCaptureDefiningProjection Author:Walker Evans
“I don't know whether we think in moving images or whether we think in still images. I have a suspicion that on our hard drive, our series within our brains, [exist] still photographs of very important moments in our lives. ... That we think in terms of still images and that what the photography is doing is making direct contact with the human hard drive and recording for all time a sense of what happened.” ThinkingKnowsHumansStillsImportantHardMomentsMovingTermBrainOur LivesHappenedPhotographyDirectSeriesPhotographContactAll TimeSuspicionImportant MomentsMoments In Our Lives Author:Jon Snow