“Behind the lens, I found refuge and freedom, distance and connection, an intoxicating way to tame the huge, chaotic world.” WorldWayFoundBehindsHugePhotographyConnectionsDistanceRefugeLensesChaotic Book:Summer of Storms Source: Summer of Storms
“Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could never hope to support, and this is not the place for me to get out the bilge pump. I will only say that critics who tremble so fiercely at the thought of the voyeuristic male gaze miss the point that distance generates mystery and enchantment, and expresses the awe with which the male imagination regards all women.” ChildrenPoliticalImaginationMoralSupportMysterySubjectsMissingPhotographyAdultsRegardDistanceCriticsMalesAweInvolvingSinkingNudityPumpsEnchantmentDisapproval Author:J. G. Ballard
“I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.” WorldUsedPhotographyDistancePowerlessDistance Myself Author:Lewis Baltz
“Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at the service of truth, for concepts of credibility, of objectivity, the need to archive, for the consolidation of institutions like the museum, in short, towards a need to control memory.” NeedsLongMemoriesTechnologyCenturyPhotographyConceptsInstitutionsDistanceDetailsDescriptionMuseumsDefiningCredibilityObjectivityNineteenth CenturyLong DistanceArchivesRigorConsolidationOptics Author:Joan Fontcuberta
“The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it is history. The photography that I practice takes place in a specific time and place, depicting real moments in people's lives. In some ways I think of myself as a historian, but not of the word. History is most often written from a distance, and rarely from the viewpoint of those who endured it.” PeopleThinkingWayRealMomentsPastPracticeWrittenPhotographyDistancePhotographHistorianViewpoints Author:Chris Killip
“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've never been the type of photographer to live with people I photograph. You know, shoot heroin with them, that kind of thing. I respect those photographers that work that way. But part of my personality is a certain amount of distance, and part of my attraction to the medium of photography is this distance where you're in the world, but you're removed from it.” PeopleWorldKindPersonalityPhotographyDistancePhotographerPhotographAttractionHeroin Author:Alec Soth
“Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.” WayMadeSometimesHelpingInspiringPhotographyDistanceHelp Me Author:Andy Goldsworthy