“Photography - the supreme form of travel, of tourism - is the principal modern means for enlarging the world. As a branch of art, photography's enterprise of world enlargement tends to specialize in the subjects felt to be challenging, transgressive. A photograph may be telling us: this too exists. And that. And that. (And it is all 'human.') But what are we to do with this knowledge - if indeed it is knowledge, about, say, the self, about abnormality, about ostracized or clandestine worlds?” IfsWorldHumansMayMeanArtSelfFormFeltChallengesModernSubjectsPhotographyPhotographSupremeBranchesEnterprisePrincipalTourismEnlargementAbnormalityClandestineArt Photography Author:Susan Sontag
“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that is felt to be shrunk, hollowed out, perishable, remote. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images.” WayStillsRealityFeltPhotographyUnderstoodPhotographPossessedInaccessibleRecalcitrant Book:A Susan Sontag reader Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“You can also see sometimes that the best pictures are the ones where you didn't try so hard, where you were just enjoying the process - and you didn't even know why you were making the picture. It felt right. If someone asked, 'Why are you making this picture?' you probably couldn't describe it very well - and that's why it needs to be a photograph.” IfsKnowsNeedsTryingWellsSometimesHardFeltProcessEnjoyPhotographyPhotographBest Picture Author:John Sexton
“I have always felt that a lot of the most interesting work, not just mine but other people's, falls into [the] nether area, somewhere between the worlds of documentary and photojournalism (two very vague words) and the world of art. I think a lot of street photography falls into this nether area.” PeopleThinkingWorldArtTwoFallFeltInterestingStreetsMinesPhotographyAreasVagueDocumentariesMost InterestingStreet PhotographyPhotojournalism Author:Alex Webb
“I really learned a lot from collecting clothes because I got to go back into the history of fashion and fashion photography and jewelry. It changed how I felt about fashion and about what I did forever because I used to look a little bit down on myself for it.” LooksLittlesUsedFeltBitsForeverFashionChangedPhotographyLittle BitClothesCollectingJewelryFashion PhotographyHistory Of Fashion Author:Stephanie Seymour
“I never felt in competition with anybody in war photography. You're lucky to get your ass in and out again. It's as simple as that. It's the easiest photography in the world to shoot somebody who's been shot up. It doesn't take a genius. That's easy. The only thing you need to know is your photography. Get in and if you're lucky get out. And get as close as you can get.” IfsKnowsWorldNeedsWarFeltEasySimpleGeniusLuckyPhotographyShotsCompetitionAss Author:David Douglas Duncan
“I think that photography has allowed me to have a voice. I used to stutter, and once I overcame that struggle, it felt good to tell people they were beautiful and special.” PeopleThinkingBeautifulUsedFeltVoiceStruggleSpecialPhotography Author:Jamel Shabazz
“I went back to photography in the 1990s. But from the 60s to the 90s I didn't really take any photographs at all, unfortunately. During that period I lived in France, I lived in England, I lived all over the place in different cities. I didn't take any photographs and because I felt I had really accomplished everything that I wanted to in photography during the period between 61 and 67.” DifferentWantedFeltCitiesPeriodsPhotographyEnglandPhotographFranceAccomplished Author:Dennis Hopper
“I've been a photographer for my whole life and I've done everything with photography that I felt I could do, and I always wanted to be a filmmaker.” DoneWholeWantedFeltPhotographyPhotographerWhole LifeFilmmaker Author:Larry Clark
“At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted.” MeanActionFeltCreativePhotographyDecidedPhotographerIntuitionThoughts And ActionsRationalizeNever RegretCreative Thought Author:Wynn Bullock
“I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on ground glass, the finished print previsioned completely in every detail of texture, movement, proportion, before exposure - the shutter's release automatically and finally fixes my conception, allowing no after manipulation - the ultimate end, the print, is but a duplication of all that I saw and felt through my camera.” IdeasEndsFormFeltSawsFocusMovementPhotographyDiscoveryUltimateCamerasFinalsPhotographerGlassesDetailsFinishedReleaseProportionManipulationPrintAllowingConceptionLensesExposurePresentationTextureShuttersPreconceived IdeasRediscoveryDuplication Book:Edward Weston on photography Source: Edward Weston on photography
“...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest pictures would then... find wholeness in the torn world.” WorldFeltRecordsOughtPhotographyPhotographerAppearanceFaithfulContradictionWholenessTorn Author:Robert Adams
“I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise.” KnowsMadeFeltSawsSubjectsPhotographyClaimsPhotographerPhotograph Author:David Hurn
“Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt.” HumansMayArtMatterFeltBrainSeeingMysteryTalentTastePhotographyLeavingPhotographerDelightReputationObservationCaptureDefiningProjection Author:Walker Evans