“Photography is much more about elimination than inclusion. The images we make with a lens typically eliminate ninety percent of our field of view and everything that is out of our field of view. The shutter slices time, eliminating all moments before and after it opens and closes. Three dimensions are reduced to two. And in some cases color is removed. How can we call these kinds of artifacts unaltered?” KindTwoMomentsThreeViewsCasesFieldsColorPhotographyPercentDimensionsInclusionLensesNinetyEliminationEliminatingArtifactsShuttersBefore And AfterThree Dimensions Author:John Paul Caponigro
“I do not want [photography] explained to me in terms of... formulas, learned, but so hopelessly unsatisfying. I do not want my butterfly stuck on a pin and put in a glass case. I want to see the sunlight on its wings as it flits from flower to flower and I don't care a rap what its Latin name may be.” WantMayCareNamesTermCasesFlowerPhotographyWingsGlassesDon't CareRapStuckI Don't CareLatinFormulasButterflySunlightPins Book:The Making of an American Source: The Making of an American
“Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?” UseCertainLiteratureLibertyCasesSubjectsPaintingPhotographyCapableAspectProfitPainterDomainLiberatingAnecdotes Author:Pablo Picasso
“Photography's a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today think that by putting on the uniform, the fishing vest, and all the Nikons, that that makes them a photographer. But it doesn't. It's not just seeing. It's feeling.” ThinkingWellsFeelingsEyeTodayCasesSeeingPhotographySkinsPhotographerFishingUniformsVestsNikon Author:Don McCullin
“The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.” ArtProblemEyeFilmCasesSpecialPaintingPridePhotographyBasesCamerasVideoMediumsDominantExtensionsNineteenVerdictWitheredPictorialExemption Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“Every adventure I've ever had with love and photography has ended in a similar misadventure. As is often the case, the rush of longing detaches from its object of desire, and my photographic ghosts lead me back to myself, alone.” DesireCasesObjectsAdventurePhotographyLongingGhostLeading MeObjects Of DesireMisadventure Author:Justine Kurland
“All aspects of photography interest me and I feel for the female body the same curiosity and the same love as for a landscape, a face or anything else which interests me. In any case, the nude is a form of landscape. There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment, on the mood of the model.” FeelsReasonMomentsBodyFacesFormInterestCasesDependsPhotographyModelsFemaleAspectCuriosityPhotographMoodLandscapeNo ReasonFemale BodySame Love Author:Jeanloup Sieff
“It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases in late years, the discoveries of photography, of electric telegraphy, and of the planet Neptune through theoretical calculations, have all their rival claimants. It would seem, that discoveries are usually made when the time is ripe for them - that is to say, when the ideas from which they naturally flow are fermenting in the minds of many men.” MenYearsMindPersonsMadeIdeasDifferentSeemsScienceSpeakCasesPlanetsLatePhotographyDiscoveryFlowElectricRivalsTheoreticalCalculationsRipeNotoriousNeptune Author:Francis Galton
“Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multi-media montage - the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case, the eyes have it, and the imagination will always soar farther than was expected.” MomentsFeelingsEyePurposeTermImaginationAbilityCasesMediaPhotographyPhotographerPhotographExpectedFixedVisualsSoarEvokeEludeSnapshotsInspiring PhotographyDecisive Moments Author:Ralph Gibson
“I always choose an area that is of personal interest, but I don't plan my travels in detail. There are so many variables one cannot predict: the changing light, weather, personal mood, and often just plain luck. Of course, you must have a starting point, so I establish some fixed points then improvise as I go. In many cases the locations seem to choose me.” LightSeemsCoursesInterestCasesPlansPhotographyAreasLuckPhotographerStartingDetailsMoodWeatherFixedLocationStarting PointVariablesPersonal InterestChoose Me Author:Josef Hoflehner
“I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a tragedy. Because there is a tragic element to photographing, in this case not war, but the collapse. It was just destruction.” WarWould BeBlackWhiteCasesColorElementsPhotographyDestructionTragedyPhotographerPhotographTragicCollapseBlack And White Author:Joel Meyerowitz
“Editions made sense when people worked with engravings where the plate wore down as prints were made. An early number of the edition had slightly better quality. But that's not the case with photography. To me, it's a false way of creating value.” PeopleWayMadeValuesNumbersQualityCasesCreatingPhotographyPrintPlatesCreating Value Author:Jerry Uelsmann
“Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of vision, while standing in the right place at the right time. Like chess, or writing, it is a matter of choosing from among given possibilities, but in the case of photography the number of possibilities is not finite but infinite.” WritingMatterGivenNumbersVisionCasesPossibilityPhotographyStandingInfiniteBottomChessVisualsPortionsEditingRight TimeFiniteRight PlaceCones Book:William Eggleston's Guide Source: William Eggleston's Guide