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“I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography.”

Helping Attitude Photography Concerned Photographer Crafts Daring

Author:Jerry Uelsmann

“Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of it. And finally, don't forget that the biggest joy in photography is making pictures of those things in your own life.”

Firsts Joy Easy Forget Photography Crafts Settling Working It

Author:David Burnett

“The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect.”

“...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.”

Wells Art Said Form Answers Taken Photography Technique Crafts Hobbies Ambivalent

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

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

“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.”

Way Looks Mean Real Courses Photography Photographer Crafts Salt Bent Real Work Caliber

Author:A. D. Coleman

“It occurs to me that at the beginning one works passionately to learn photography. This takes years, and the craft is usually formed during this period. Then as time passes one finds oneself more in the role of serving the medium... Then, as in the example of several masters that I have been privileged to know personally, it appears that by having devoted oneself totally to the medium, one becomes photography.”

Knows Years Has Beens Roles Example Masters Periods Photography Oneself Mediums Crafts Serving Devoted Privileged Time Passes

Author:Ralph Gibson

“I don't like the discussions about whether photography is an art. Even though I think that if it would be just a craft I would not have stayed with it all my life.”

Ifs Thinking Art Would Be Photography Crafts Discussion

Author:Josef Sudek

“To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.”

Photography Essence Photographer Crafts Of Context

Author:John Szarkowski

“The craft of photography is the key to good images.”

Keys Photography Crafts

Author:Ansel Adams

“Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.”

“Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art.. that it was considered a craft.. has trapped almost every serious photographer.”

Trying Children Art Facts Serious Prove Photography Photographer Crafts Trapped Prove It

Author:Richard Avedon