“Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.” ShouldArtUseTermClearStylePhotographyArt IsPhotographerUselessSophisticatedDocumentsDocumentariesMislead Author:Walker Evans
“The oceans are in trouble. There are some serious problems out there that I believe are not clear to many people. My hope is to continually find new ways of creating images and stories that both celebrate the sea yet also highlight environmental problems. Photography can be a powerful instrument for change.” PeopleWayBelieveStoriesProblemI BelievePowerfulClearTroubleSeaSeriousOceanCreatingPhotographyInstrumentsEnvironmentalCelebrateNew WaysHighlightsEnvironmental Problems Author:Brian Skerry
“My photography is very European. In America, I always get the sense that people are comforted by understanding what they're looking at. Photography's quite clear here [in the U.S.], it's very well-explained. My photography's perhaps not as well-explained.” PeopleWellsAmericaUnderstandingClearPhotography Author:Anton Corbijn
“We have become a nation of Kodachrome, Nikon, Instamatic addicts. But we haven't yet developed a clear idea of the ethics of picture-taking. ... Where do we get the right to bring other people home in a canister? Where did we lose the right to control our image?” PeopleIdeasHomeNationsLosesClearHavensPhotographyEthicsAddictNikonPicture Taking Author:Ellen Goodman
“Photography, precisely because it can only be produced in the present and because it is based on what exists objectively before the camera, takes its place as the most satisfactory medium for registering objective life in all its aspects, and from this comes its documental value. If to this is added sensibility and understanding and, above all, a clear orientation as to the place it should have in the field of historical development, I believe that the result is something worthy of a place in social production, to which we should all contribute.” IfsShouldBelieveValuesI BelieveSocialUnderstandingResultsClearFieldsDevelopmentPhotographyAspectShould HaveCamerasHistoricalProductionsWorthyObjectivesMediumsSensibilityOrientation Author:Tina Modotti
“Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it is also clear that photography is too multiple, too useful to other discourses, ever to be wholly contained within traditional definitions of art.” ArtSeemsClearEnvironmentPhotographyDefinitionsInventionTraditionalVisualsMultipleDiscourseSaturatedVisual Images Book:On the Museum's Ruins Source: On the Museum's Ruins
“For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.” ShouldClearPhotographyPhotographerPrize Author:Subcomandante Marcos
“My experience says that if you put out a lot of personal work that's good, it tends to attract high dollar commercial work. But to be clear - I don't create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art.” IfsArtI CanClearProjectsPhotographyDollarsGetting High Author:Chase Jarvis
“... If we consider the difference between William Henry Jackson packing in his camera by mule, and the person stepping for a moment from his car to take a picture with his Instamatic, it becomes clear how some of our space has vanished; if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space 'in no time' is to have denied its reality.” IfsWayPersonsMomentsRealityDifferencesSpaceViewsClearCarPhotographyCrossesCamerasDeniedPackingMules Author:Robert Adams