“One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up in the library, where there happened to be a black and white photography exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg's photographs of the streets of New York. The subject of his photos were exactly what I was painting about.” BlackWhiteTeacherHappenedStreetsSubjectsNew YorkPaintingPhotographyLibraryPhotographRanClassroomBlack And WhiteTrashExhibitionsBlack And White Photography Author:Jose Parla
“For me, going back to itinerant landscape painting, it's not about returning to an older method, but about building on what happened in the 20th century in photography. And also highlighting what the differences are between a painting and a photograph in picturing space.” DifferencesSpaceHappenedCenturyBuildingPaintingPhotographyMethodPhotographLandscape20th CenturyHighlightingLandscape Painting Author:Cynthia Daignault
“Although I get a lot of ideas from things that have happened in my life, I see the final product as a place where my imagination meets my experience. What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.” IdeasSeemsImaginationHappenedProductsPhotographyFinalsMy Imagination Author:Laurel Nakadate
“What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it [photography] at a certain level, well, there's a skill to it. Still, it's a good time for photography now.” PeopleWellsMadeStillsAgeCertainLevelsHappenedSkillsPhotographyPhotographerGood TimesDigitalDigital Age Author:Bryan Adams
“I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.” FallHappenedPhotographyPhotographer Author:Berenice Abbott
“In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.” LooksHappenedPhotographyTrainUnionsPhotographIllegalStationsSovietSoviet UnionTrain Stations Author:Tom Clancy
“I don't know whether we think in moving images or whether we think in still images. I have a suspicion that on our hard drive, our series within our brains, [exist] still photographs of very important moments in our lives. ... That we think in terms of still images and that what the photography is doing is making direct contact with the human hard drive and recording for all time a sense of what happened.” ThinkingKnowsHumansStillsImportantHardMomentsMovingTermBrainOur LivesHappenedPhotographyDirectSeriesPhotographContactAll TimeSuspicionImportant MomentsMoments In Our Lives Author:Jon Snow