“I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.” YearsDoeArtStatesEnoughRunningSchoolStuffClassFourCollegeLuckyPhotographyTestsGradesFour YearsGreyHippieArt SchoolBlah Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I want to record history through the destiny of individuals who often belong to the least wealthy classes. I do not want to show war in general, nor history with a capital H, but rather the tragedy of a single man, of a family.” MenWantWarShowsIndividualClassDestinyRecordsPhotographyTragedyWealthySingle Man Author:James Nachtwey
“And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.” GivingTryingSchoolFilmParentClassMinesCollegePhotographyHigh SchoolSellsPhotographerTrackEmsPrintDismayFilm Photography Author:John Sexton
“At Columbia there's no performing arts department, so I was searching for it everywhere I could, and I took some photography classes and I ended up becoming fascinated with Eastern Religion, and ultimately it seemed to encompass the more abstract mind that I have.” MindArtClassBecomingPhotographyPerformingAbstractDepartmentFascinatedEasternColumbiaPerforming Arts Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“The subject I liked best was painting, but the teachers didn't approve of my experiments and sometimes criticized me in front of the whole class. Maybe my love for photography came from that humiliation: a photo is something that you develop and print yourself, in the dark, and that remains in the dark until you decide to show it.” SometimesWholeShowsDarkClassTeacherSubjectsFrontsPaintingPhotographyRemainsExperimentsPrintHumiliation Author:Hiroshi Hamaya
“As a senior in high school my counselor recommended that I soften my science and math direction with an art course. Fortunately my high school offered a new course in B&W photography, so I opted for that instead of art, towards which I had an aversion. Composition is something that comes pretty naturally to me and I appreciate ordered chaos: the photo class turned out to be fun.” ArtSchoolCoursesFunClassPhotographyHigh SchoolAppreciateChaosMathCompositionSeniorAversionCounselorHigh School Senior Author:Peter Menzel
“When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students and I try to expand the terminology we use to talk about poetry as well as expand our notion of what makes a poem - we read source texts on architecture, dance, photography, film and the graphic novel.” TryingWellsUseFilmClassTeachNovelStudentsSourcePhotographyNotionArchitectureGraduatesTopicsGraphicGraphic NovelsTerminologySeminars Author:Matthea Harvey
“When I was in art school, the photo kids were separated from the rest. If you did sculpture or painting or graphic design, you were all taking the same classes, but the photographers just went straight into photography.” IfsArtKidsSchoolClassDesignPaintingPhotographyPhotographerSculptureGraphicGraphic DesignArt School Author:Ryan McGinley
“There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.” ThinkingGivingMadeSpiritClassForeverParticularPhotographyPhotographerPhotographDamnDon't Give A DamnAlways And ForeverI Don't Give A Damn Author:Minor White
“The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and the landscape, and why not: Good and Evil, desire and its object: dualities we can conceive but not perceive... Whatever it grants to vision and whatever its manner, a photograph is always invisible: it is not it that we see.” TwoDesireEvilVisionClassObjectsPhotographyPhotographInvisibleLandscapePerceiveGood And EvilGrantsWhy NotDestroyingDualityWindowpane Author:Roland Barthes