“None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.” GivingMy OwnEventsPhotographyInterpretationEditors Author:James Nachtwey
“The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's so open to interpretation. And I'm very happy having different interpretations of it.” KindDifferentReasonPhotographyJournalismInterpretationVery HappyDifferent Interpretations Author:Alec Soth
“All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.” FilmArtistSoundInterestPerfectObjectsPersonalityPhotographyScreensInterpretationCopiesMakersMediocrityBoresDiscouragingReproductionRefinement Author:Jean Renoir
“The greatest field of photography, for the literary interpretation of life, consists, to my mind, in its latent power to create, as it were, death for a single second. Any thing or person is, at will, made to die for a moment of time so immeasurably small that the return to life is effected without consciousness of the great adventure. (1928)” MindPersonsMadeMomentsLife IsDiesConsciousnessFieldsAdventureReturnPhotographyInterpretationLatentGreat Adventure Author:Pierre Mac Orlan
“If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)” IfsArtPhotographyArt IsPoeticInterpretationTranslationsComplementExactitude Author:Charles Negre
“Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a frame to the world, it's an interpretation. I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame. You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. There's an infinite number of ways you can do this: photographs have always been authored.” PeopleWorldWayPersonsTwoFactsLeftCan DoNumbersDegreesPhotographyCapableThirdsMurderInfiniteCamerasPhotographSubtleManipulationInterpretationHomelessThird Person Author:Joel Sternfeld
“My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.” PhotographyPhotographInterpretationSubjective Author:Bill Jay
“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.” PowerfulExpressionCommunicationOffersPerceptionPhotographyInfinitePhotographerPhotographMediumsVarietyInterpretationExecutionInspirational PhotographyInspiring PhotographyArt PhotographyLandscape PhotographyDoors Of Perception Book:Singular images Source: Singular images
“Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.” IfsIdeasTechnologyPhotographyVisualsInterpretationCollapse Author:Arnold Newman
“A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.” RealPaintingPhotographyPhotographMaskInterpretationFootprint Author:Susan Sontag
“More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is too soon to define the characteristic of the photographic style today, one common denominator, rooted in tradition, seems in the ascendancy. The direct use of the camera for what it can do best, and that is the revelation, interpretation, and discovery of the world of man and of nature. The greatest challenge to the photographer is to express the inner significance through the outward form.” MenWorldWellsUseSeemsTodayFormCan DoChallengesCommonStyleExpressionCommunicationApproachPhotographyDiscoveryTraditionDirectCamerasPhotographerMediumsCharacteristicsRevelationsSignificanceInterpretationAestheticRootedCommon DenominatorAscendancy Author:Beaumont Newhall
“While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less than the registering of an emanation (light waves reflected by objects) — a material vestige of its subject in a way that no painting can be.” WayLightWould BeSubjectsObjectsPaintingMaterialsPhotographyStandardsCrossesPhotographWaveInterpretationNailsResemblanceResemblance IsLight Waves Author:Susan Sontag