“Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ... But after repeated exposure to images it also becomes less real. ... 'concerned' photography has done at least as much to deaden conscience as to arouse it.” IfsHas BeensRealDoneKnownEventsPhotographyConscienceConcernedPhotographExposure Author:Susan Sontag
“Most of Tina Modotti's work that is known to the photography world was done in Mexico in the years 1923 through 1926, when she lived and worked with Edward Weston.” WorldYearsDoneKnownPhotographyMexico Author:John Szarkowski
“You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.” WellsWould BeActorsKnownDramaPhotographyLowsBudgetsWell KnownGood Photography Author:Bruce Campbell
“You can't teach people photography, they've got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. They can learn from looking at pictures taken by well-known people, but they don't really get intimate with the medium until they've made a few bad shots!” PeopleWayWellsMadeKnownTeachTakenPhotographyShotsBest WayMediumsIntimateWell KnownPicture Taken Author:Cecil Beaton
“The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some sort of objectivity, digital imaging is an overtly fictional process. As a practice that is known to be capable of nothing but fabrication, digitization abandons even the rhetoric of truth that has been such an important part of photography's cultural success.” Has BeensStillsImportantSeemsProcessDifferencesKnownPracticePhotographyCapableClaimsDigitalAbandonRhetoricObjectivityFabricationImaging Book:Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History Source: Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History
“There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It's getting very dull now. So, okay photography doesn't tell the truth. So what? Everyone has known this forever.” DoneSocialKnownForeverPhotographyOkayDullTelling The TruthBeing DoneUntruth Author:Abelardo Morell
“I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.” KnowsTryingDoeWaitingWalksSecretKnownWatchesKnow HowStreetsWalkingApproachPhotographyPhotographerCornersHeatUnexpectedAround The Corner Author:Alex Webb
“Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.” WorldTurnsDifferencesKnownObjectsPhotographyPhotographTranslations Author:Robert Heinecken
“In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a feeling of the reality of existence that lies mysteriously and invisibly beneath its surface, I feel I have succeeded. At their best, photographs as symbols not only serve to help illuminate some of the darkness of the unknown, they also serve to lessen the fears that too often accompany the journeys from the known to the unknown.” IfsWorldFeelsHelpingFeelingsRealityAbleLyingExistenceKnownDarknessJourneyPhotographyPhotographerPhotographSurfaceSymbolsNot AloneEvokeAccompany Author:Wynn Bullock