“Not only do we end up with a vivid, surprising and soulful sense of one artist and his work, but Leigh also offers us a commanding view of a city, London, and country at the dawn of the modern age and of a man being overawed and overtaken by new technologies such as photography and the railways. As ever with Leigh, 'Mr Turner' addresses the big questions with small moments. It's an extraordinary film, all at once strange, entertaining, thoughtful and exciting.” MenEndsCountryMomentsBigsAgeFilmArtistViewsCitiesTechnologyModernStrangeOffersPhotographyExcitingExtraordinaryLondonDawnThoughtfulAddressesSurprisingEntertainingVividNew TechnologyRailwaySoulfulBig QuestionsTurnerModern AgeSmall Moments Author:Dave Calhoun
“How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.” WorldWayTryingKindMatterAliveSubjectsThis WorldPhotographyExtraordinarySubject Matter Author:Keith Carter
“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
“In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically] some thing entirely new into the world.” WorldTodayPhotographyMethodInstrumentsExtraordinaryReproduction Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
“I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of contact. And I use the instruments that our modern world offers, these extraordinary instruments of photography and film and computers.” WorldTryingKindUseFilmModernOffersComputerPhotographyConnectionsInstrumentsExtraordinaryContactModern WorldPhotography And Film Author:Leon Golub
“It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.” NeedsArtImaginationVisionLearningPhotographyOrdinaryExtraordinaryPhotographerPhotographInventionPainterPhotography By PhotographersInspirational PhotographyGreat PhotographyStreet PhotographyArt PhotographyGood Photography Author:David Bailey
“There was as big a reaction after the revelations about Assad's chemical weapons. Nevertheless, that photograph did strike a singular chord. Which leads us to a larger fact: we don't understand why certain photographs create such an upheaval in one's soul. You look at them and go, "Oh my gosh." And that doesn't happen with television. It's unique to photography. Photographs are unique in that they are a frame abstracted out of reality, out of, in this case, a civil war. A single event can carry so much weight. And that is extraordinary.” WarSoulRealityPhotographyUniqueExtraordinaryPhotographCivil WarRevelationsOh My Gosh Author:Stuart Franklin
“I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in my own work. Indeed, I feel the simplest approach can often be most effective. A subject placed squarely in the center of the frame, if attention is not distracted from it by fussy surroundings, has a simple dignity which makes it all the more impressive.” IfsFeelsCertainMy OwnSimpleAttentionSubjectsApproachPhotographyDignityExtraordinaryPhotographerOccasionsAngleSimplestSurroundingsImpressiveDistractedOften IsFussy Book:Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography Source: Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography