“I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.” KnowsWantMindPhotographyIndependentFeaturesInstantGratificationInstant Gratification Author:Ryan McGinley
“Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty four years after we undertook to make the first instant camera and film, our kind of photography has become ubiquitous.” YearsFirstsKindFilmFourEssentialsPhotographyCamerasInstantThirtyFiftyDigitalFour YearsLayersCrystalsLiquidSynthetic Author:Edwin Land
“There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.” EasyDifficultPossibilityPhotographyDirectPhotographerFasterInstantOur TimeProportionMultiple Author:Ernst Haas
“At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form the world we live in. All our lives, that world is more immediate than words and difficult to articulate. Photography, reflecting those images with uncanny accuracy, evokes their associations and our instant conviction. The art of the photographer lies in using those connotations, as a poet uses the connotations of words and a musician the tonal connotations of sounds.” WorldLongArtUseLightFormLyingDifficultSoundOur LivesPoetBirthShapesPhotographyMusicianPhotographerConvictionInstantAssociationReflectingTextureAccuracyEvokeConnotationUncanny Author:Nancy Newhall
“What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty of the instant and of these surprising points of view that appear for a brief moment and never return; those are what make photography an art.” ArtImportantMomentsViewsAwarenessReturnPhotographyNotionPoint Of ViewInstantSurprisingBrief Moments Author:Raoul Hausmann
“The lover of photography is fascinated both by the instant and by the past. The moment captured in the image is of near-zero duration and is located in a ever-receding then. At the same time, the spectator's now, the moment of looking at the image, has no fixed duration. It can be extended as long as fascination lasts and endlessly reiterated as long as curiosity returns.” LongMomentsLastsPastReturnLoversPhotographyCuriosityFixedInstantZeroFascinatedSpectatorsFascinationCapturedDuration Author:Peter Wollen
“Instant gratification in photography is not something that I need or desire. I find that the long, slow journey to the final print captivates me far more.” NeedsLongDesireJourneyPhotographyFinalsInstantPrintGratificationInstant Gratification Author:Michael Kenna
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” LifeInspirationalArtStillsMomentsTimeChangePhotographyPhotographerPhotographInstantStillnessBlack And WhiteGreat ArtCapturedMoments In TimePhotography By PhotographersStill LifeInspirational PhotographyGreat PhotographyStreet PhotographyBest ArtDigital PhotographyPhotojournalistsColor PhotographyDocumentary Photography Author:Dorothea Lange
“A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.” BrotherPhotographyEternityPhotographerPhotographNostalgiaCeaseInstantLooking BackCaptured Author:Brigitte Bardot
“My pictures are about a search for a moment—a perfect moment. To me the most powerful moment in the whole process is when everything comes together and there is that perfect, beautiful, still moment. And for that instant, my life makes sense.” InspirationalStillsWholeMomentsTogetherBeautifulProcessPerfectPowerfulLife PhilosophyPhotographyMake SenseInstantMeaning Of LifeMost PowerfulMoments In TimePerfect MomentsBeautiful Moments Author:Gregory Crewdson