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“Photography is much more about elimination than inclusion. The images we make with a lens typically eliminate ninety percent of our field of view and everything that is out of our field of view. The shutter slices time, eliminating all moments before and after it opens and closes. Three dimensions are reduced to two. And in some cases color is removed. How can we call these kinds of artifacts unaltered?”

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Author:John Paul Caponigro

“The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.”

Way Fields Photography Photographer Investigating

Book:Sommer: . Images

Source: Sommer: . Images

“Becoming a professional artist takes talent and perseverance, even more so when the field is photography.”

Artist Talent Fields Becoming Photography Perseverance

Author:Clyde Butcher

“The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.”

“When I started using the extreme short depth of field and single point of focus, I was trying to replicate my changing eyesight. We have binocular vision; one eye perceives space from the other. I don't experience a scene visually at F32. It's more like F1.4.”

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Author:Keith Carter

“Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.”

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Author:Lester Beall

“Men have dominated the field of landscape photography just as they have dominated the land itself. Thus shooting a virgin landscape has been man's work - hunting, not gardening.”

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Author:Lucy R. Lippard

“The greatest field of photography, for the literary interpretation of life, consists, to my mind, in its latent power to create, as it were, death for a single second. Any thing or person is, at will, made to die for a moment of time so immeasurably small that the return to life is effected without consciousness of the great adventure. (1928)”

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Author:Pierre Mac Orlan

“Photography, precisely because it can only be produced in the present and because it is based on what exists objectively before the camera, takes its place as the most satisfactory medium for registering objective life in all its aspects, and from this comes its documental value. If to this is added sensibility and understanding and, above all, a clear orientation as to the place it should have in the field of historical development, I believe that the result is something worthy of a place in social production, to which we should all contribute.”

“I earnestly advise women of artistic tastes to train for the unworked field of modern photography. It seems to be especially adapted to them, and the few who have entered it are meeting with gratifying and profitable success. (1898)”

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Book:Gertrude Käsebier: the photographer and her photographs

Source: Gertrude Käsebier: the photographer and her photographs

“Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the artist by reproducing with mathematical precision the form and effect of objects and even that poetry which at once arises from any harmonious combination.”

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Author:Charles Negre

“Scientists are usually nice, organized, logical people who are very cooperative. I always learn a lot of science while shooting science stories and it helps to be able to speak intelligently to a subject about his or her field of work, i.e., do your homework before the photography.”

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Author:Peter Menzel

“The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.”

Way Rich Fields Photography Photographer Best Way Become Rich

Author:Bill Jay

“I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.”

People Thinking Fields Photography Depth Lacking Shutters

Book:Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door 2016: The Travel Skills Handbook

Source: Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door 2016: The Travel Skills Handbook

“The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated”

Should Mind Heart Art Action Fields Photography Photographer Photograph Heart And Mind

Author:Frederick Sommer