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“I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a landscape that I need to first explore in my mind's eye if I am to make it manifest as an artful image in silver.”

Ifs Needs Mind Firsts Eye Materials Type Photography Photographer Landscape Silver Manifest Salt Constructs Liquid Developers Terrain Fixers

Book:New England Days

Source: New England Days

“Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term-selectivity.”

Should Firsts Term Simple Quality Painting Exercise Photography Photographer Photograph Technique Significant Statements Print Sheer Documents Symphony Pretty Picture

Author:Berenice Abbott

“Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.”

Source: Harlem photographs, 1932-1940

“...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it. You have to have it in you first, you don't learn it. The seeing eye is the important thing.”

People Giving Firsts Important Eye Study Seeing Photography Important Things Formulas

Author:Imogen Cunningham

“At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.”

Firsts Photography Photographer Photograph Glances

Author:Minor White

“The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.”

Firsts Humans Soul Body Photography Mirrors Human Body

Author:Auguste Rodin

“Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.”

Firsts Seems Photography Understood Photographer Architecture

Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

“My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.”

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Author:Gregory Crewdson

“A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then you have a kind of hard road of execution.”

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Author:Jay Maisel