“The desert ... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the successes ... both noble and foolish, are readily apparent in the desert. Symbols and relationships seem to arise that stand for the human condition itself.” MenHumansMaySeemsStruggleEnvironmentConditionsPhotographyNobleFoolishAriseSymbolsDesertHuman ConditionBackdrop Book:Desert Cantos Source: Desert Cantos
“Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.” PeopleWorldForceBrainEnvironmentPhotographyMusclesInteractingAdept Author:Deborah Copaken
“I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.” StillsNaturalLove IsEnvironmentInvolvedPhotographyPhotographNatural Environment Author:John Sexton
“Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it is also clear that photography is too multiple, too useful to other discourses, ever to be wholly contained within traditional definitions of art.” ArtSeemsClearEnvironmentPhotographyDefinitionsInventionTraditionalVisualsMultipleDiscourseSaturatedVisual Images Book:On the Museum's Ruins Source: On the Museum's Ruins
“There was a time in my life that I may not have been that nice, and now I'm in a position to contribute to the education of young people, and teach them to be compassionate, be more loving, more caring, to not use profanity, to not pollute the environment - these are things that I address in my photography. I” PeopleMayHas BeensUseYoungTeachEnvironmentNicePositionPhotographyCaringAddressesCompassionateProfanity Author:Jamel Shabazz
“I got to work with Robert DeNiro once and it was a strange experience. Gwyneth Paltrow and I were doing Great Expectations movie together and we were complaining about what a mediocre film experience it was. DeNiro showed up on set and all of a sudden the director got better, the director of photography got better - everybody got more interested and excited. DeNiro isn't waiting for other people to create the environment that he wants, he brings it along with him.” PeopleTogetherFilmWaitingEnvironmentStrangePhotographyExpectationsExcitedComplainingMediocreGreat Expectations Author:Ethan Hawke
“Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.” PeopleAmericaUsedWonderEnvironmentPhotographyTraditionWestPhotographerPhotographEastLandscapeCoastEast CoastAmerican TraditionAmerican WestLandscape PhotographyScenic Author:Galen Rowell
“Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.” MenArtMomentsEnvironmentPhotographyCapacityWorks Of Art Author:Cornell Capa
“Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival.” HumansStrongRaceEnvironmentHealthyPhotographyWeaponsSurvivalToolsDefensePropagandaHuman RaceDevicesFostering Author:Eliot Porter
“Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.” ConsciousnessEnvironmentModernObjectsArmsPhotographyIdealsCamerasPhotographMoodMysteriousCaptured Author:Susan Sontag