“My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was dead. I began to work in collaboration with other artists in the creation of performances and installation works. Soon after, I started making video and photographic works and in the process became fascinated with the media itself. Before long I was setting things up just for the camera. In l970 I got a dog and he turned out to be very interested in video and photography as well.” WellsLongSchoolArtistProcessMediaDogCreationPaintingPhotographyPerformancesCamerasBackgroundsSettingVideoSettingsCollaborationFascinatedSixtyInstallation Author:William Wegman
“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
“The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact that it is a creation, but above all in the fact that it is one of the most effective means of shaping our ideas and influencing our behavior.” MeanIdeasFactsRealityEyeLyingInfluenceCreationBehaviorPhotographyImportancePermitLensesDistortion Author:Gisele Freund
“Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental creation and the affirmation of a personality. What is marvelous about a photograph is that its possibilities are infinite; there aren't any subjects 'done to death'.” DoneSeemsEasyForgetSubjectsCreationPossibilityPersonalityPhotographyAspectInfinitePhotographMarvelousAffirmation Author:Gisele Freund
“Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly.” AgeValuesSocialCreationPhotographyPhotographAppearanceExplosionsPublicitySocial Values Author:Roland Barthes
“I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.” IfsWould BeDifficultTermSimpleEffortCreativeCreationProducePhotographyPhotographerPhotographProductionsImprovementDisasterEaseSheerSuperficialOutputWatercolorsEtchingGood Photography Author:Ansel Adams
“For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of a compelling impulse I cannot deny. Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe.” HumansStillsSpiritualUniverseFiguresCreationEmotionalBalancePhotographyConnectionsEssenceHarmonyResponsePhotographerPhotographDenyOnenessImpulseRealmsReachingMotivatedYearningCompellingHuman ExperienceStill LifeCulminationEmotional ResponseSpiritual ConnectionPoetry And MusicBalance And Harmony Author:Ruth Bernhard
“The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working rapport is established between the artist and his creation. While it may be true, as Nathan Lyons stated, 'The eye and the camera see more than the mind knows,' is it not also conceivable that the mind knows more than the eye and the camera can see?” KnowsMindMayEndsEyeArtistProcessCreationPhotographyDiscoveryCamerasBoundsPhotographerContemporaryBeing TrueRapport Author:Jerry Uelsmann
“Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole.” DoeArtWholeFactsForgetRecordsCreationProvePhotography Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews