Best photography & events Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.”

Giving My Own Events Photography Interpretation Editors

Author:James Nachtwey

“A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.”

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Book:Underworld: A Novel

Source: Underworld: A Novel

“Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ... But after repeated exposure to images it also becomes less real. ... 'concerned' photography has done at least as much to deaden conscience as to arouse it.”

Ifs Has Beens Real Done Known Events Photography Conscience Concerned Photograph Exposure

Author:Susan Sontag

“Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report.”

Ifs Should May Imagination Quality Events Objects Photography Essence Reports Journalistic

Book:New York 22: that district of the City which lies between Fiftieth and Sixtieth Streets, Fifth Avenue, and the East River

Source: New York 22: that district of the City which lies between Fiftieth and Sixtieth Streets, Fifth Avenue, and the East River

“If you are able to see on a monitor what it's actually going to look like and have that kind of feedback informing your decisions, then you're bringing back a lot of the decision-making process of the designer, the director of photography and the director away from the post-production process and bringing it back into the actual capturing of the event on film.”

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Author:Rick Heinrichs

“Before the first press pictures, the ordinary man would visualize only those events that took place near him, on his street or in his village. Photography opened a window. As the reader's outlook expanded, the world began to shrink.”

Men World Firsts Streets Events Reader Photography Ordinary Window Presses Village Outlook Shrinks Ordinary Man

Author:Gisele Freund

“Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.”

Events Photography Presses Photograph Currents Naked Artistic Landscape Current Events

Author:Alexander Rodchenko

“And even being in the middle of it, at the LVMH group with Dior, there are certain parts of it that I'm just not really in, because it's not in me or my nature. The whole scene around it, the events, the photography ... It's never really been my thing. But I don't take a critical position on people who are very much about that either.”

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Author:Raf Simons

“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down.”

People Should Has Beens Art Moments Past Force Memories Events Photography Should Have Photograph Fog Captured Should Have Been Art Photography

Book:The House at Riverton: A Novel

Source: The House at Riverton: A Novel

“Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it...”

Looks Past Events Photography Capture

Author:Julian Schnabel

“When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).”

World Want Self Action Order Conditions Events Objects Photography Photographer Photograph Permanent Disorder Self Contained

Book:Aaron Siskind, photographer

Source: Aaron Siskind, photographer

“Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What went on in the city during the week seemed chaotic and unrelated to the events in my mountain world.”

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Author:Galen Rowell

“This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in the medium. And it's true. If you watch a photographer of merit working an event he/she does not look like an amateur.”

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Author:David Hurn

“I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity but honesty. It is eye-witness photography.”

Thinking Eye Events Honesty Photography Accounts Photographer Witness Subjectivity Connotation

Author:David Hurn

“Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.”

Persons Turns Events Photography Photograph Possessed

Book:Regarding the Pain of Others

Source: Regarding the Pain of Others

“Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.”

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Book:Selected Essays of John Berger

Source: Selected Essays of John Berger

“As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things I was photographing not as objects but as events. Working to develop my skills of perceiving and symbolizing these event qualities, I discovered the principle of opposites. When, for example, I photographed the smooth, luminous body of a woman behind a dirty cobwebbed window, I found that the qualities of each event were enhanced and the universal forces which they manifested were more powerfully evoked.”

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

“I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them.”

Feels Art Space Creativity Events Photography All Things Photographer Photograph Time And Space Interacting Space Time

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

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