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“I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.”

Looks Desire Photography Photographer Burning Burning Desire

“[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).”

Desire Belief Fit Late Photography Discovery Surface Preserves Cinema Capture Rays Technological Fleeting Fascination Transparency Modernity

Author:Walead Beshty

“Every adventure I've ever had with love and photography has ended in a similar misadventure. As is often the case, the rush of longing detaches from its object of desire, and my photographic ghosts lead me back to myself, alone.”

Desire Cases Objects Adventure Photography Longing Ghost Leading Me Objects Of Desire Misadventure

Author:Justine Kurland

“[Photography] ties back into this feeling of wanting to watch things fall and the moment before they break. Fireworks are that way for me - this lovely thing that blows up and is gone. It all goes back to this desire to record things before they disappear - the original reason we take pictures, right?”

Way Reason Moments Feelings Desire Fall Watches Break Gone Records Photography Originals Blow Disappear Lovely Ties Fireworks Lovely Things

Author:Laurel Nakadate

“As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.”

Art Desire Photography Stable Ephemeral Transitory

Book:Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture

Source: Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture

“I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness.”

Desire Awareness Photography Machines Cameras Slave Conquer

Author:Todd Walker

“I think what it was with the war photography was the concerned eye, the desire to document these situations to show the world the horrors of war. It inspired me to document prostitution; inspired me to document homelessness in America. We are the richest country in the world, yet we have people suffering, so it helped me to look at things in that manner.”

People Thinking World Looks War Country Shows Eye America Desire Suffering Situation Horror Photography Concerned Inspired Documents Homelessness Prostitution Horror Of War

Author:Jamel Shabazz

“Instant gratification in photography is not something that I need or desire. I find that the long, slow journey to the final print captivates me far more.”

Needs Long Desire Journey Photography Finals Instant Print Gratification Instant Gratification

Author:Michael Kenna

“There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.”

Facts Desire Photography Pursuit Intensity Sinister Obscene

Book:Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

“Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.”

Humans Art Moments Seems Desire Photography Photographer

Author:Sam Abell

“My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved from an intense devotion to mountains and wilderness that eventually shaped all the parts of my life and brought them together.”

World Book Together Desire Interest Mountain Photography Cameras Photographer Devotion Intense Burning Wilderness Mentor Burning Desire

Author:Galen Rowell

“There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no desire to create or stage direct ideas.”

Ideas Form Desire Interest Stage Photography Direct Photographer Recorders

Author:David Hurn

“And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel. It is the hope that we might express ourselves fully-and the evidence that other photographers have done so-that keep us taking pictures.”

Thinking Needs Feels Important Done Problem Might Desire Strong Pleasure Seeing Expression Habit Photography Evidence Photographer Photograph Borders Capture Taking Pictures Strong Desire

Author:Sam Abell

“The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and the landscape, and why not: Good and Evil, desire and its object: dualities we can conceive but not perceive... Whatever it grants to vision and whatever its manner, a photograph is always invisible: it is not it that we see.”

Two Desire Evil Vision Class Objects Photography Photograph Invisible Landscape Perceive Good And Evil Grants Why Not Destroying Duality Windowpane

Author:Roland Barthes

“The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live more in peace with the world, and possibly to help others to do the same.”

World Helping Desire Integrity Photography Photographer Photograph Helping Others Urges Desire To Live Deep Desire

Book:Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

Source: Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

“I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire”

Art Desire Fear Nature Anxiety Photography Metaphor Psychological Landscape Surrogates Iconography American Landscape

Author:Gregory Crewdson

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