“I think my pictures are really about a kind of tension between my need to make a perfect picture and the impossibility of doing so. Something always fails, there's always a problem, and photography fails in a certain sense... This is what drives you to the next picture.” ThinkingNeedsKindProblemCertainNextPerfectFailingPhotographyTensionImpossibility Author:Gregory Crewdson
“Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer and the use he makes of his theme. When photography fails... it is usually because a false separation has been imposed on form and content.” DoeHas BeensFactsUseFormPurposeFailingPhotographyCamerasPhotographerSeparationThemeIsolatedEntityAestheticsInseparable Author:Sid Grossman
“Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.” FirstsLooksFailingPhotographyPoetry IsTruthfulFirst LovePhotography Love Author:Larry Towell
“Perhaps why so much of today's photography doesn't grab us or mean anything to our personal lives is that it fails to touch upon the hidden life of the imagination and fantasy, which is hungry for stimulation.” MeanTodayLife IsImaginationFantasyFailingPhotographyHungryPersonal LifeStimulation Author:Arthur Tress
“I think there's a general confusion that my work is about types of photography. But really that's just a tool to introduce some questions I have about seeing. What happens when all of these conditions and structures and histories and cultures and tools you have around you begin to fail? On the one hand there is an engagement with histories and cultures, and on the other, there is this very lonesome space of actually coming to terms with seeing.” ThinkingCultureTermFailingPhotographyConfusionIntroducing Author:Elad Lassry
“It's really a great asset to be willing to fail and blow it, so to speak, and to be okay with just making stuff, sharing it and getting feedback.” SpeakStuffFailingWillingPhotographyOkayBlowAssetsFeedback Author:Chase Jarvis
“Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them the most fully truthful expression of their vision... as Robert Frost told a person who asked him what one of his poems meant, 'You want me to say it worse?'” ThinkingWantPersonsReasonArtistVisionFailingExpressionPhotographyPhotographerMediumsExplanationWant MeTruthfulFrostYou Want Me Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews
“People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.” PeopleThinkingWellsWaterFailingPaintingPhotographyDrawsCamerasFolly Author:Edward Weston
“The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation.” RealCountryMightMotherValuesFatherBoysFailingPossibilityTaughtReturnPhotographyPhotographUniformsConsolationDepartureReal Value Author:Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.