Best photography & hands Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.”

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Author:David Hockney

“Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.”

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Book:Basic Photography

Source: Basic Photography

“It never seemed important to me that my photos be published. It's important that I take them. There were periods where I didn't have money, and I would imagine that someone would come to me and say: 'Here is money, you can go do your photography, but you must not show it.' I would have accepted right away. On the other hand, if someone had come to me saying: 'Here is money to do your photography, but after your death it must be destroyed,' I would have refused.”

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Author:Josef Koudelka

“Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.”

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Author:John Paul Caponigro

“Digital information, for every type of storage, is unfounded. If everything is on a hard drive and the hard drive freezes up, your whole photography collection could just go away. We can still look at printed photographs of our grandparents. We can physically hold them in our hands and look at it.”

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Author:Gus Van Sant

“The fact is that the camera is literal if anything, which gives it something in common with a thermometer... Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty. There is sleight of hand in photography... you make the viewer think he's seeing everything while at the same time you make him realize he's not. I try to make my pictures seem reasonable and then, at the last minute, pull the rug from beneath the viewer's feet, very gently so there's a little thrill.”

“Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.”

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Author:Margaret Bourke-White

“In the beginning of my photography I controlled everything: rearranging the room, lighting it, and telling people what to do and where to put their hands. By the last project, I was basically totally at the mercy of serendipity.”

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Author:Philip-Lorca diCorcia

“Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.”

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Book:Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz

Source: Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz

“Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.”

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Author:Martine Franck

“I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues as I ever was. Then there is the photographer-me, the one who has a camera in hand and a specific project in mind, and then the world suddenly jumps to life with potential pictures, as if a switch had been thrown in my brain and a different person is looking out of the same eyes.”

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Author:Bill Jay

“I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one hand and television and virtual reality on the other hand.”

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Author:Paul Virilio

“When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.”

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Book:Altars

Source: Altars

“I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.”

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Author:Robert Mapplethorpe

“There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you how they've suffered and so forth. Well, I just rent a car and drive to the place and take the pictures.”

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Author:Elliott Erwitt

“The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.”

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Book:Portrait of Myself

Source: Portrait of Myself

“The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.”

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Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

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