“If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be transmitted with anguish, with pain, and create an impact in people - upset them, shake them up, wake them out of their everyday routine.” PeopleIfsPainHumanityCrimePhotographyImpactEverydayUpsetShakesRoutineAnguishCrimes Against HumanityEveryday Routine Author:James Nachtwey
“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.” KindTwoEnoughMomentsTogetherHumanityVisionOne ThingPhotographyPhotographerPhotographRealismPhotography By PhotographersGreat PhotographyContainmentFilm PhotographyPhotography And FilmGood Photography Author:Robert Frank
“Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?” ArtCountrySufferingHumanityGivenPleasurePoorActingMoralityPhotographyBlessedDearCastsMy TimeAbsentInventorTolerableDear OnesChloroform Author:Jane Welsh Carlyle
“Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all.” IfsLooksMeanPersonsAbleBeautifulHumanityTurnsSeeingPhotographyUgly Author:Zana Briski
“I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.” PeopleLifeHumanityPositivePositive ThinkingPhotographyPhotographLife Is GoodLife Is BeautifulI Love LifeI Love My Life Author:Horst P. Horst
“To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.” HumanityQualityRecordsPhotographyAll ThingsPhotographSurfaceLatent Book:Ansel Adams: photographs Source: Ansel Adams: photographs
“This photographic thing has changed the entire vision of the world. It will go through every activity of humanity - science, medicine, space, ESP, for peace, against peace, entertainment, television, movies, all of them - you will not find one without photography.” WorldHumanitySpaceVisionChangedTelevisionActivityPhotographyMedicineEntertainmentThings Have ChangedEsp Book:Lisette Model Source: Lisette Model
“It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.” PeopleCareHumanityOne ThingPhotographyPhotographerPhotographCoreRevealingPhotography By PhotographersHumannessInspirational PhotographyHumanness Is Author:Paul Strand
“It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organising them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.” HumansMatterCareHumanityComedyPhotographyConcernPhotographerHopefullyNoticingReactingPreconceptionsNoticing Things Author:Elliott Erwitt