“I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.” ArtStillsSchoolFilmCoursesPhotographyHigh SchoolEditingUscArt Direction Author:Ray Harryhausen
“To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, more selective, more acute eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world. Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times-the pulse of today. The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will, but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.” IfsWorldShouldMayMeanPhilosophyRealityEyeTodayCoursesBehindsHonestSeriousExpressionPhotographyDirectPhotographerPhotographConnectedEvolveMeritRelatedConsiderationPulseSelective Author:Berenice Abbott
“Photography, of course, is the perfect medium for the investigation. It can reveal the truth of present day specifics and particularities, while at the same time, by conscious choice of lighting and pictorial structure, suggest the aesthetic legacy of the past.” PastChoicesCoursesPerfectPhotographyConsciousStructurePhotographerMediumsLegacyAestheticInvestigationLightingPresent DayPictorialSpecifics Author:John Pfahl
“Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much.” CoursesToo MuchPhotographyPhotography Love Author:Sebastiao Salgado
“Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is that he maycommunicate a thought or an impression to his reader without the reader's realizing that he has been dragged through a series of hazardous or grotesque syntactical situations. In photography the goal seems to be to prove beyond a doubt that the cameraman, in his great moment of creation, was either hanging by his heels from the rafters or was wedged under the floor with his lens in a knothole.” WritingMayHas BeensArtMomentsSeemsCoursesGoalRealizingSituationDoubtCreationReaderProvePhotographyAimSeriesImpressionHeelsLensesGrotesqueGreat MomentsCameramanArt Of WritingRafters Author:E. B. White
“I never went to school for that. In high school we had photography, which was great. That was another moment of discovery. I had a great teacher - I can't even remember her name now. I ended up going to boarding school for my last high school years and they had a dark room there. Of course there was curfew; you were supposed to be in bed at a certain time. But I would sneak out and sneak into the dark room and work all night.” YearsI CanMomentsSchoolLastsRememberNightCertainCoursesNamesDarkRoomsTeacherBedPhotographyHigh SchoolDiscoverySupposed To BeAll NightGreat TeacherSneakDark RoomCurfewSchool Years Author:Jeff Vespa
“I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography.” CoursesPhotographyCinematography Author:Scoot McNairy
“... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the real at all. I don't want to get into jargon - let's just say that photography to me no longer pertains to the rhetoric of realism; it pertains more perhaps to the rhetoric of the unreal rather than the real or of course the hyperreal.” WantNeedsRealTodayCoursesComputerPhotographyHappeningsRealismRhetoricUnrealJargonAlterationsImaging Author:Barbara Kruger
“[Photography was necessary to] make my place in the art-world: in order to do this, I had to make a picture, since a picture was what a gallery or museum was meant to hold (all the while, of course, I was claiming that I was denying the standard, rejecting it...)” WorldArtOrderCoursesPhotographyStandardsMuseumsGalleryRejectingArt World Author:Vito Acconci
“Any photographer worth his/her salt - that is, any photographer of professional caliber, in control of the craft, regardless of imagistic bent - can make virtually anything look good. Which means, of course, that she or he can make virtually anything look bad - or look just about any way at all. After all, that is the real work of photography: making things look, deciding how a thing is to appear in the image.” WayLooksMeanRealCoursesPhotographyPhotographerCraftsSaltBentReal WorkCaliber Author:A. D. Coleman
“There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the world, in fact). It's almost as if the act of photography bears some relationship to how we consciously manage the uncontrollable set of possibilities that exist in life.” IfsWorldFactsRealityCoursesPossibilityBearsPhotographyManageExclusionChunksUncontrollableFraming Author:Philip-Lorca diCorcia
“Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like a notebook.” WantEarthCoursesPhotographyWitnessPassagesNotebook Author:Mario Giacomelli
“... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.” ThinkingYearsReasonRealityLastsFilmCoursesAcceptingTechnologyComputerPhotographyHundredFiftyPhotography And FilmComputer Graphics Author:Lev Manovich
“Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you, accommodate you, illuminate you, put make up on you or use a filter, am I not manipulating reality? The only difference is that now I can do it from the computer in the postclick instead of the preclick. If I decide to photograph something instead of something else, I also manipulate reality. Of course a photograph can lie or commit abuse, but it always could.” IfsI CanUseRealityUsedLyingOrderCoursesCan DoDifferencesComputerPhotographyAbusePhotographMythTricksCommitPortraitsManipulateFiltersAccommodateI Can Do ItCover Ups Author:Pedro Meyer
“I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you do if you draw badly. Now they teach it at the Royal College of Art and get grand about it. It's the only course there that I don't understand.” PeopleIfsThinkingArtCoursesCareersTeachCollegePhotographyDrawsAbsolutesNonsenseRoyal Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
“Photography is space, light, texture, of course, but the really important element is time - that nanosecond when the image organizes itself on the ground glass.” ImportantLightCoursesSpaceElementsPhotographyGlassesOrganizeTexture Author:Ezra Stoller
“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
“Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course of my life.” MadeCoursesPhotographyHumbling Author:Jamel Shabazz
“I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and of course Stieglitz. Stieglitz always considered photography to be an art form and is the "father" of the creative concepts of the twentieth century.” ArtFormCoursesFatherCreativeCenturyPhotographyLowsConceptsAppreciationTwentieth Century Author:Ansel Adams
“Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.” LooksInspirationCoursesAsksInformationPhotographyPhotographerTechniqueCuriousPhotography By PhotographersInspirational PhotographyGreat PhotographyInspiring PhotographyArt PhotographyDigital Photography Author:Man Ray
“Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.” KnowsMomentsEyeCoursesRealizingDecisionPhotographyFacilitySnaps Author:Ben Shahn
“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.” MayArtMadeRealityCoursesOpportunitySoundLinesChanceRecordsReadyFineElementsFindingsPhotographyMusicianArgumentMachinesPhotographerMediumsPainterCombinationPhrasesBranchesMelodyTrendsCompositionMechanicSurroundingsFine Arts Author:Edward Weston
“I always choose an area that is of personal interest, but I don't plan my travels in detail. There are so many variables one cannot predict: the changing light, weather, personal mood, and often just plain luck. Of course, you must have a starting point, so I establish some fixed points then improvise as I go. In many cases the locations seem to choose me.” LightSeemsCoursesInterestCasesPlansPhotographyAreasLuckPhotographerStartingDetailsMoodWeatherFixedLocationStarting PointVariablesPersonal InterestChoose Me Author:Josef Hoflehner