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“All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.”

Conditions Photography Photograph Memorable Aspire Being Me Unforgettable

Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“The desert ... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the successes ... both noble and foolish, are readily apparent in the desert. Symbols and relationships seem to arise that stand for the human condition itself.”

Men Humans May Seems Struggle Environment Conditions Photography Noble Foolish Arise Symbols Desert Human Condition Backdrop

Book:Desert Cantos

Source: Desert Cantos

“Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition.”

Conditions Photography Privileged

Author:Frederick Sommer

“Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something to be seen, it must be looked at by somebody, and any true and real depiction must be an account of the experience of that looking.”

Real Conditions Photography Accounts Observers Depiction

Book:True to life: twenty-five years of conversations with David Hockney

Source: True to life: twenty-five years of conversations with David Hockney

“Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second.”

Art Today Modern Conditions Activity Photography Fundamentals Speed Splits Modern Art

Book:Lisette Model

Source: Lisette Model

“Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is sight,'Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.”

Way Mind Wells Looks Stories Eye Order Conditions Limits Photography Sight Photograph

Author:Roland Barthes

“When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).”

World Want Self Action Order Conditions Events Objects Photography Photographer Photograph Permanent Disorder Self Contained

Book:Aaron Siskind, photographer

Source: Aaron Siskind, photographer

“The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.”

World May Said Together Three Term Simple Conditions Elements Paper Photography Photograph Objectives Permanent Disorder Sheets

Book:Aaron Siskind, photographer

Source: Aaron Siskind, photographer

“The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the results to others.”

Moments Results Conditions Particular Photography Photograph Destination Moments In Time Transmit

Author:David Hurn

“In previous ages the word 'art' was used to cover all forms of human skill. The Greeks believed that these skills were given by the gods to man for the purpose of improving the condition of life. In a real sense, photography has fulfilled the Greek ideal of art; it should not only improve the photographer, but also improve the world.”

Men World Should Humans Art Real Age Form Used Purpose Given Conditions Skills Photography Ideals Photographer Greek Fulfilled Improving

Author:David Hurn