“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
“It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions about photography that matter most to me.” TryingMatterRunningPhotographyDirectPhotographerTrafficCandor Author:Richard Avedon
“The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.” Has BeensProblemLastsTurnsCenturyPhotographyDirectColour Author:Gabriel Lippmann
“There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.” EasyDifficultPossibilityPhotographyDirectPhotographerFasterInstantOur TimeProportionMultiple Author:Ernst Haas
“I like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well.” WritingWellsFilmOne DayPhotographyDirect Author:Zoe Kravitz
“I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.” ThinkingWorldKindArtDealsPhotographyArt IsDirectMagazinesPornographyExposureRumorSlides Author:Carl Andre
“Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.” CommunicationPhotographyDirectViolentContactNon ViolentDirect Communication Author:Robert Rauschenberg
“Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct and uncompromising.” WorldGivingMeanVisionAchievePhotographyDirectPhotographerSpontaneousUncompromisingAperture Author:Ellsworth Kelly
“What I've always liked about photography is that it's such a direct way of showing what's on my mind. I see something. I show it to you.” WayMindShowsPhotographyDirect Author:Zoe Leonard
“I've always thought that each album would be my last one, and then I would be out of ideas and I would move to photography or something. I thought it was transient and it's not because of this entrenched career stubbornness that I've done it for so long, it's just something I enjoy doing, and it's the most direct way I can express something.” LongDoneMovingEnjoyPhotographyDirectStubbornness Author:Tim Hecker
“Being a photographer helps me see the work differently. I always walk away seeing things differently than when I stare at them myself. It gives me a little distance. So I love photography, but it also helps me tell the story. When I shoot the ad campaign for my work, it allows me to be much more direct.” GivingHelpingPhotographyDirectDistancePhotographerStaringHelp Me Author:Reed Krakoff
“I like the drawings. And as a photography fan myself, I would look at Helmut Newton or Irving Penn and like to see the initial notes or drawings, to see where the ideas grew from. Also my sketches are key to my work because I came to realise early on that by doing drawings, I could formulate a plan of what I was thinking of - I could take control and direct the work.” ThinkingPhotographyDirectRealisingNewton Author:Miles Aldridge
“I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.” PeopleThinkingImportantSoulHonestPhotographyDirectInsightful Author:Mary Ellen Mark
“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.” IdeasFormDesireInterestStagePhotographyDirectPhotographerRecorders Author:David Hurn
“More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is too soon to define the characteristic of the photographic style today, one common denominator, rooted in tradition, seems in the ascendancy. The direct use of the camera for what it can do best, and that is the revelation, interpretation, and discovery of the world of man and of nature. The greatest challenge to the photographer is to express the inner significance through the outward form.” MenWorldWellsUseSeemsTodayFormCan DoChallengesCommonStyleExpressionCommunicationApproachPhotographyDiscoveryTraditionDirectCamerasPhotographerMediumsCharacteristicsRevelationsSignificanceInterpretationAestheticRootedCommon DenominatorAscendancy Author:Beaumont Newhall
“I don't know whether we think in moving images or whether we think in still images. I have a suspicion that on our hard drive, our series within our brains, [exist] still photographs of very important moments in our lives. ... That we think in terms of still images and that what the photography is doing is making direct contact with the human hard drive and recording for all time a sense of what happened.” ThinkingKnowsHumansStillsImportantHardMomentsMovingTermBrainOur LivesHappenedPhotographyDirectSeriesPhotographContactAll TimeSuspicionImportant MomentsMoments In Our Lives Author:Jon Snow
“To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.” PeopleWorldWellsSelfRealitySpiritualDifficultRealizingAwarenessSourcePhotographyReflectionDirectMajorityPhotographFactualSpiritual Awareness Author:Ansel Adams