“For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how to print is applying a subjective pallet to that sketch, and completes the creative process.” ArtistProcessChallengesHalfCreativePhotographyMediumsPrintCreative ProcessSubjectivePractiseMethodologyPallets Author:David Travis
“I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.” FeelsDoeArtCertainDifficultHalfWalkingPhotographyPhotographerArrogance Author:Walker Evans
“The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect.” IfsMayArtSelfTurnsSpiritualitySimpleHalfFineGratitudeElementsPhotographyConcernedPhotographSakeAverageConvictionAppreciationCraftsManifestationSignificanceIntensityGenesDecayObscureDocumentariesVigorousEsotericGreat RespectSlickSimple BeautyDocumentary Photography Author:Ansel Adams
“Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as they tell only part of a story or tell it in distorted form, half the battle is won. Once he has conceded that photography is not a naturalistic medium of rendition and that striving for naturalism in a photograph is futile, he can turn his attention to using a camera to make more effective pictures.” StoriesFormLyingTurnsAttentionHalfBattlePhotographyCamerasMajorityStrivePhotographerPhotographConvincedMediumsNaturalismConceded Author:Andreas Feininger
“'Ornithologists concluded that migratory birds take hundreds of naps as they fly; they also practice unilateral eye closure, in which one eye closes, thereby permitting half the brain to sleep.' Is this what happens when photographers close one eye to look through a viewfinder? If so, they might be operating with only half a brain. Perhaps that explains.” IfsLooksMightHappensEyeSleepBrainHalfPracticePhotographyBirdPhotographerNapsClosureMigratory Birds Author:Bill Jay
“My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to imagine alternate worlds, to writing about [Buckminster] Fuller who was the ultimate world man creating all sorts of alternate worlds and believing that they were imminent to my own work of - for instance, a project that I've been working on for some year and a half, two years now that continues to evolve has been what I call Deep Time Photography.” MenWorldWritingTryingYearsBelieveHas BeensTwoBookMy OwnHalfFictionImagineProjectsCreatingPhotographyUltimateInstanceEvolveRangeTwo YearsFablesFiction WritingWriting FictionEclecticBuckminster Fuller Author:Jonathon Keats
“Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What went on in the city during the week seemed chaotic and unrelated to the events in my mountain world.” WorldTwoCitiesHalfWeekEventsMountainPhotographyPhotographerMake SenseChaotic Author:Galen Rowell
“Give half a dozen men the same camera, lenses and plates, and send them to the same place to do the same thing, and all the results will be alike, or so nearly alike as to reveal the real mechanicalness of photography. Yet, curiously enough, this is just one of the most difficult things a photographer can be set to do, to exactly repeat himself, or another. He may use the identical apparatus, know the subject perfectly, and yet be totally unable to bring away an exact replica.” KnowsMenGivingMayRealEnoughUseDifficultResultsHalfSubjectsPhotographyCamerasPhotographerRepeatsJust OneDozenPlatesLensesIdenticalDifficult ThingsReplicaCamera Lenses Author:Frederick H. Evans
“When you're photographing anything to do with war and conflict you're photographing something impossible. Everything you do is just clumsy and stupid and half witted. Because it is impossible to portray the full width and breadth of everything that you are up against.” WarHalfImpossibleStupidConflictPhotographyClumsyBreadthWidth Author:Simon Norfolk