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“Choice and chance structure art and nature.”

Art Choices Chance Photography Structure Photographer Construction

Book:Sommer: . Images

Source: Sommer: . Images

“Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play.”

Ifs Play Chance Results Photography Photographer Photograph Poetic

Author:Frederick Sommer

“Photographs help people look at things they may not be able or may not want to look at. Until you can look at something, you can't change it. First you have to look at it, then you have a chance to understand it and can change it.”

People Want Firsts Looks May Helping Able Chance Photography Photograph Can't Change

Author:Lynn Johnston

“... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.”

Wells Moments Chance Attention Photography Mysterious Existential Surrealism Intersections Decisive Moments

Author:Lee Friedlander

“It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)”

Mean Art Chance Photography Invention Contemptuous Servility Optics

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon [the] possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world dominated by apparatuses; to reflect upon the way in which, despite everything, it is possible for human beings to give significance to their lives in the face of the chance necessity of death. Such a philosophy is necessary because it is the only form of revolution left open to us.”

World Way Giving Humans Philosophy Faces Form Left Chance Human Beings Possibility Revolution Photography Tasks Despite Significance

Book:Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography

“All my photographs are about meetings and about coups de foudre - love at first sight. To do that type of photography, one must wipe the canvas clean to prepare for chance encounters, be open and aware to such moments, otherwise it becomes a cliché - already seen and expected.”

Firsts Moments Chance Type Photography Sight Clean Meetings Photograph Expected Encounters Canvas Love At First Sight Wipe Coups Chance Encounters

Author:Edouard Boubat

“I discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life.”

Firsts Young Chance Wife Building Photography First Time Cameras My Wife Paris Architect Lenses

Author:Sebastiao Salgado

“In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.”

Ifs Mind Feelings Eye Chance Ability Practice Particular Photography Sight Photograph Print Intuitive Good Chance

Author:Ansel Adams

“It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I'd be out shooting all the time. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you.”

Ifs Feelings Chance Materials Photography Photographer Variety Shooting Staring Generous Staring At You

Author:Lee Friedlander

“A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.”

Stills Chance Photography Photographer Studios Genre Dislike Stem Session

Book:Marilyn Monroe--an appreciation

Source: Marilyn Monroe--an appreciation

“Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.”

“The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.”

Lying Language Chance Quality Vision Written Photography Best Picture

Author:Walker Evans

“Images of people, cities, and landscapes from the air tell a unique story about our personal space and how we relate to one another. I've always aimed to address the bigger picture and later trends. In many ways, what a photographer does is give others a chance to step back and look at their world and gain perspective on where we stand, and what that means.”