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“I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach. I could not take pictures that were not connected to my own inner life.”

Feels Made My Own Decision Photography Connected Stomach Inner Life

Author:Jacob Aue Sobol

“Composition in photography is almost as varied as composition in music or words -- melodic or atonal, safe or daring -- and can enhance subject, theme, and style. Every photograph you take involves you in some compositional decision, even if this is simply where to set up the camera or when to press the button.”

Ifs Decision Subjects Style Safe Photography Cameras Presses Photograph Theme Daring Composition Buttons

Book:Basic Photography

Source: Basic Photography

“I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and then to combine this with a conceptual art practice. But thinking back, that was the wrong decision [laughs]. Developing a low-quality aesthetic is a sign of serious fine art-I still see this.”

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Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“If you are able to see on a monitor what it's actually going to look like and have that kind of feedback informing your decisions, then you're bringing back a lot of the decision-making process of the designer, the director of photography and the director away from the post-production process and bringing it back into the actual capturing of the event on film.”

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Author:Rick Heinrichs

“[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.”

Decision Responsibility Photography Unique Capacity Photographer Chiefs Clicks Shutters Arresting

Book:Diana & Nikon: Essays on Photography

Source: Diana & Nikon: Essays on Photography

“A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.”

Decision Moral Taken Photography Photographer Photograph Moral Decisions

Book:The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

“Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.”

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Author:Chuck Close

“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.”

Knows Moments Eye Courses Realizing Decision Photography Facility Snaps

Author:Ben Shahn

“Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.”

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Book:Selected Essays of John Berger

Source: Selected Essays of John Berger

“It is the photographer's decision at the two levels of seeing the picture - when it is shot and when it is chosen and printed that determines his personal style.”

Two Decision Levels Seeing Style Photography Shots Photographer Determine Chosen Printed Personal Style

Author:Alexey Brodovitch