“The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias.” ArtCareersGoneSubjectsPaintingHonorPhotographyTraditionAimRemainsEverydayPortraitsCordelia Book:On photography Source: On photography
“Making these photographs has often seemed to me like a kind of dance. Often I have danced badly and the world has fallen apart at my feet. But sometimes the dance has gone well and my subject and I have moved together as if with shared purpose.” IfsWorldWellsKindSometimesTogetherPurposeGoneFeetSubjectsPhotographyMovedPhotographFallen Author:Keith Carter
“The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone.” TwoNextChallengesGoneOne DayPhotographyShotsNext DayTwo DaysNew Challenges Author:Patrick Demarchelier
“People are always trying to find the next groovy thing, and it hasn't gone back to painting... I'd like it to go back to painting. I'm sick of all this photography and video. There's so much of it, it's almost annoying.” PeopleTryingNextGonePaintingPhotographySickVideoAnnoyingAlways TryingGroovy Author:Cindy Sherman
“[Photography] ties back into this feeling of wanting to watch things fall and the moment before they break. Fireworks are that way for me - this lovely thing that blows up and is gone. It all goes back to this desire to record things before they disappear - the original reason we take pictures, right?” WayReasonMomentsFeelingsDesireFallWatchesBreakGoneRecordsPhotographyOriginalsBlowDisappearLovelyTiesFireworksLovely Things Author:Laurel Nakadate
“I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.” ThinkingValuesGonePhotography Author:Ansel Adams
“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” InspirationalArtMomentsGoneForeverImpossiblePhotographyArt IsPhotographerPhotographCaptureCapturedGood MemoriesPhotography By PhotographersInspirational PhotographyPhoto ShootsInspiring PhotographyArt PhotographyCapturing A Moment PhotographyPhotography And Light Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.” MatterGonePhotographyCamerasExtravagant Book:The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California Source: The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California
“What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.” WorldMayHas BeensMatterCharacterMemoriesLevelsCommonGoneSubjectsEmotionalMaterialsAmountShapesDegreesPhotographyConsciousPhotographerRealmsAssociationInvolvementSubject MatterUnderworld Author:Aaron Siskind