“I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.” ThinkingMenHappensCan DoWhitePeriodsPhotographyDiscoveryPhotographerHeat Author:Walker Evans
“In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives, deeply compelling.” FoundPhotographyDiscoveryTraditionalNarrativeSpiteTrendsCaptureCompelling Author:Richard Misrach
“I am not unaware that I have the mindset, as contradictory as it may sound, to discover in the world what I am in fact looking for. Perhaps the best pictures are a seamless hybrid of discovery and construction.” WorldMayFactsSoundPhotographyDiscoveryMindsetConstructionContradictoryHybridSeamlessBest Picture Author:Richard Misrach
“I never went to school for that. In high school we had photography, which was great. That was another moment of discovery. I had a great teacher - I can't even remember her name now. I ended up going to boarding school for my last high school years and they had a dark room there. Of course there was curfew; you were supposed to be in bed at a certain time. But I would sneak out and sneak into the dark room and work all night.” YearsI CanMomentsSchoolLastsRememberNightCertainCoursesNamesDarkRoomsTeacherBedPhotographyHigh SchoolDiscoverySupposed To BeAll NightGreat TeacherSneakDark RoomCurfewSchool Years Author:Jeff Vespa
“The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.” WritingMindArtNovelPhotographyDiscoveryExtraordinaryOperationsLabourNovel Writing Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales
“For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)” MeanMadeImportantEndsPhotographyDiscoveryImportant ThingsMade ItRays Author:Wilhelm Rontgen
“[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).” DesireBeliefFitLatePhotographyDiscoverySurfacePreservesCinemaCaptureRaysTechnologicalFleetingFascinationTransparencyModernity Author:Walead Beshty
“Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.” NeedsSelfBitsProcessWalksSpecialPhotographyDiscoveryDrivingDestructiveDigitalNeighborhoodStoppingSelf DestructiveTime Of NeedSpedDigital Photography Author:Mona Kuhn
“It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases in late years, the discoveries of photography, of electric telegraphy, and of the planet Neptune through theoretical calculations, have all their rival claimants. It would seem, that discoveries are usually made when the time is ripe for them - that is to say, when the ideas from which they naturally flow are fermenting in the minds of many men.” MenYearsMindPersonsMadeIdeasDifferentSeemsScienceSpeakCasesPlanetsLatePhotographyDiscoveryFlowElectricRivalsTheoreticalCalculationsRipeNotoriousNeptune Author:Francis Galton
“The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. There is something demoralizing about going back to a place to retake pictures. You can no longer see your subjects in a fresh eye; you keep comparing them with the pictures you hold in your memory. [The] world was full of discoveries waiting to be made...(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned...you would react to something all others might walk by.” WorldWantNeedsWellsMadeImportantMightEyeWaitingMemoriesWalksSawsShareSubjectsWalkingElementsPhotographyDiscoveryPhotographerCompareRepeatsNew WorldStimulusOur MemoriesWants And NeedsDemoralizingWalking Forward Author:Margaret Bourke-White
“I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me.” FirstsGivenTakenPossibilityExpressionPhotographyDiscoveryCamerasPhotographerDearFamiliarIntriguedDear FriendHoneymoon Author:Aaron Siskind
“I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on ground glass, the finished print previsioned completely in every detail of texture, movement, proportion, before exposure - the shutter's release automatically and finally fixes my conception, allowing no after manipulation - the ultimate end, the print, is but a duplication of all that I saw and felt through my camera.” IdeasEndsFormFeltSawsFocusMovementPhotographyDiscoveryUltimateCamerasFinalsPhotographerGlassesDetailsFinishedReleaseProportionManipulationPrintAllowingConceptionLensesExposurePresentationTextureShuttersPreconceived IdeasRediscoveryDuplication Book:Edward Weston on photography Source: Edward Weston on photography
“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
“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 is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.” ArtVisionShapesPhotographyArt IsDiscoveryHarmonyConfusionDisparity Author:Robert Adams