“Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!” KnowsMenWantGivingWellsLittlesLongCan DoColorMonthsPhotographyIllusionMachinesUltimateIntelligentDo You KnowSweatIngeniousCan Do SomethingIntelligent Man Book:The writings of a savage Source: The writings of a savage
“All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.” ArtRealityFormVisionPhotographyIllusionArt IsRevelations Author:Ansel Adams
“If people are fans of 'Mindfreak,' they are going to be so excited with 'Believe.' They are actually going to see those illusions that people think can only happen with trick photography.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveHappensFansPhotographyIllusionExcitedTricks Author:Criss Angel
“People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place is this mystical, magical place. The desert is also a very barren place, a very lonely place, a very boring, uneventful place.” PeopleThinkingPhotographyIllusionLonelyBoringDesertMysticalBarrenMagical PlacesLonely Places Author:Richard Misrach
“The camera does not know what it takes; it captures materials with which you reconstruct, not so much what you saw as what you thought you saw. Hence the best photography is aware, mindful, of illusion and uses illusion, permitting and encouraging it - especially unconscious and powerful illusions that are not usually admitted on the scene.” KnowsDoeUsePowerfulSawsMaterialsScenePhotographyIllusionCamerasUnconsciousCapture Book:The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton Source: The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton
“The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.” MenWayDoePlayFactsLyingFoundProcessResultsAchieveEssentialsPhotographySolutionsIllusionWitPsychologicalFactorsTransitionAppetiteSatisfyingReproductionBaroque Author:Andre Bazin
“Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with the fairy-tale world of childhood, a never-ending journey through great and small, through variations and the realm of illusions and appearances, a labyrinthine and specular place of multitudes and simulation.” ThinkingWorldWonderfulMagicJourneyChildhoodAwarenessAdventurePhotographyIllusionAdultsAppearanceTalesManageRealmsFairyFairy TaleToysMultitudesVariationNever EndingSimulationGreat Adventure Author:Luigi Ghirri
“I am interested in marginality, in immaturity, in naïveté, in illusion, in fictions, in transitions, in the fact that at a certain moment in life there is no limit. I would like my photography to pose a question rather than make a precise statement.” MomentsFactsCertainFictionLimitsPhotographyIllusionStatementsTransitionPreciseImmaturityVets Author:Lise Sarfati
“Simulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions... The simulation confuses the idea of a truth. I've always been interested in this kind of theater and illusion at the foundation of belief.” KindIdeasBeliefProcessFantasyPhotographyIllusionTheaterFoundationMythRelateLayersInterventionComplicationSimulation Author:Taryn Simon
“Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.” IfsWorldKindHelpingRealityInspiringInterestingPhotographyIllusionVirtual RealityVirtual World Author:Steven Pinker
“It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will change or die. It is the future they are innocent of. Fifty years on we look at them with the godly knowledge of how they turne dout after all - who they married, the date of their death - with no thought for who will one day be holding photographs of us.” YearsLooksDiesSubjectsOne DayPhotographyMarriedIllusionPhotographInnocentInnocenceNarrativeIronyFiftyGodlyFrozenUnawareness Author:Ian Mcewan
“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.” KnowsWorldRealRealityPhotographyIllusionInspiring PhotographyLandscape PhotographyColor Photography Book:Arnold Newman in Florida Source: Arnold Newman in Florida
“People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students to simplify their equipment.” PeopleEasyMillionsStudentsPhotographyIllusionComplexesEquipmentSimplify Author:Brett Weston
“A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.” ArtSpaceCreativitySawsPiecesPhotographyIllusionCamerasPhotographDescriptionTime And SpaceLiteral Author:Garry Winogrand