“For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how to print is applying a subjective pallet to that sketch, and completes the creative process.” ArtistProcessChallengesHalfCreativePhotographyMediumsPrintCreative ProcessSubjectivePractiseMethodologyPallets Author:David Travis
“Photography - the supreme form of travel, of tourism - is the principal modern means for enlarging the world. As a branch of art, photography's enterprise of world enlargement tends to specialize in the subjects felt to be challenging, transgressive. A photograph may be telling us: this too exists. And that. And that. (And it is all 'human.') But what are we to do with this knowledge - if indeed it is knowledge, about, say, the self, about abnormality, about ostracized or clandestine worlds?” IfsWorldHumansMayMeanArtSelfFormFeltChallengesModernSubjectsPhotographyPhotographSupremeBranchesEnterprisePrincipalTourismEnlargementAbnormalityClandestineArt Photography Author:Susan Sontag
“I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents quite a challenge to the man who can take delight in being in a very difficult, disdained medium.” PeopleMenDifficultChallengesHe ManPhotographyEmptyNotesPhotographerDelightMediumsWorthlessDespisedPhony Author:Walker Evans
“I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism - real life - the now.” WorldBelieveRealHomeI BelieveChallengesAcceptingCreativeElementsPhotographyPhotographerReal LifeMediumsOur TimeRealism Author:Berenice Abbott
“We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.” ArtistChallengesMagicPhotographyQuittingMediumsKeep GoingNever Quit Author:John Sexton
“The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone.” TwoNextChallengesGoneOne DayPhotographyShotsNext DayTwo DaysNew Challenges Author:Patrick Demarchelier
“When I was working with Robert Frank, he told me that there was absolutely no relationship between cinema and photography. I challenge that. Surely what you know as a photographer must impact how you set up your shots.” KnowsChallengesPhotographyShotsImpactPhotographerCinemaFrank Author:Ralph Gibson
“There is no such thing as the perfect picture. That's the challenge of photography. I was always striving for perfection, even though I knew I could never achieve it. But it kept me reaching for something.” ChallengesPerfectAchievePhotographyPerfectionStriveReachingStriving For Perfection Author:Phil Stern
“My biggest challenge was moving from photography to film without losing my way of working - which is very intimate and learning to collaborate with more people, since photography for me is a very solitary process.” PeopleWayFilmMovingProcessChallengesPhotographyLosingMy WayIntimateSolitary Author:Maya Goded
“These days, you'd probably shoot it in the daylight and manipulate it in the post. That's [how] most people would do it. [I did the same thing with] with 'Diving Bell and the Butterfly'. No CGI. It's all live photography. And I like that, it's very challenging and exciting to be able to do that.” PeopleAbleChallengesPhotographyExcitingPostsThese DaysBellsButterflyManipulateDaylightDivingCgi Author:Janusz Kaminski
“Everybody now has a camera, whether it is a professional instrument or just part of a phone. Landscape photography is a pastime enjoyed by more and more. Getting it right is not an issue. It is difficult to make a mistake with the sophisticated technology we now have. Making a personal and creative image is a far greater challenge.” DifficultChallengesMistakeTechnologyCreativeIssuesGreaterPhotographyCamerasInstrumentsPhonesEnjoyedLandscapeSophisticatedPastimeLandscape Photography Author:Michael Kenna
“I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.” RealDoneLightNaturalChallengesPhotographyHardestFeaturesPhotography And LightNatural Light Author:Galen Rowell
“When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom.” ArtistChallengesViewsReadyPhotographyCamerasPressesReleaseEncountersCablesAnticipateDarkroom Author:John Sexton
“The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.” FirstsHumansHeartMeanHas BeensArtOrderChallengesHuman BeingsCitiesMysteryStreetsPhotographyIntellectualMachinesBallsPhotographerObjectivesVisualsSensiblePortraitsSelectionFrameworkObjectivityCity StreetsBouncing Ball Author:Berenice Abbott
“And young people who are learning digital skills discover that the real challenge is coming up with an image that resonates, first of all, with your self and hopefully, with an audience. They can learn all these new techniques and think that they're easier to use, but creating great images isn't about the tools.” PeopleThinkingFirstsRealSelfUseYoungChallengesAudienceEasierSkillsCreatingPhotographyToolsTechniqueHopefullyDigital Author:Jerry Uelsmann
“More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is too soon to define the characteristic of the photographic style today, one common denominator, rooted in tradition, seems in the ascendancy. The direct use of the camera for what it can do best, and that is the revelation, interpretation, and discovery of the world of man and of nature. The greatest challenge to the photographer is to express the inner significance through the outward form.” MenWorldWellsUseSeemsTodayFormCan DoChallengesCommonStyleExpressionCommunicationApproachPhotographyDiscoveryTraditionDirectCamerasPhotographerMediumsCharacteristicsRevelationsSignificanceInterpretationAestheticRootedCommon DenominatorAscendancy Author:Beaumont Newhall