“It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it is perhaps the most contradictory of mediums.” MadeDealsPhotographyMediumsMade ItCompellingContradictory Author:Bill Henson
“Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of a self-portrait. I think it's impossible for a photographer who is working honestly to keep this from happening.” IfsThinkingMadeSelfBitsImpossibleFrontsPhotographyHappeningsCamerasPhotographerPhotographHonestlyMade ItPortraitsSelf Portrait Author:John Sexton
“Photography has always been associated with death. Reality is colorful, yet early photography always took the color out of reality and made it black-and-white. Color is life; black-and-white is death. There was a ghost hidden in the invention of photography.” MadeRealityBlackWhiteColorPhotographyGhostInventionMade ItBlack And WhiteColorful Author:Nobuyoshi Araki
“For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)” MeanMadeImportantEndsPhotographyDiscoveryImportant ThingsMade ItRays Author:Wilhelm Rontgen
“Photography is very subjective. Photography is not a document on which a report can be made. It is a subjective document. Photography is a false witness, a lie.” MadeLyingPhotographyMade ItWitnessReportsDocumentsSubjectiveFalse Witness Author:Robert Doisneau
“The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.” MadeFactsUsedArtistFinePhotographyPainterMade ItFine Artists Author:Edward Ruscha
“Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.” PeopleMadeEasyStuffPhotographyMediumsMade ItDigitalMediocrePhotoshopDigital Photography Author:Edward Burtynsky
“Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.” HumansPersonsDoeArtMadeSoulMatterEyeArtistVoiceDoubtWallPhotographyArt IsPhotographerOilResistanceMediumsMade ItWhat MattersIgnoredBeholderEye Of The Beholder Author:Seth Godin
“I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.” WayMeanMadeSaidFilmCrazyPhotographyMade ItThings To DoRelatedCrazy Things Author:George Lucas
“Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time.” MadeRecordsPhotographyMade ItPermanentSpectrum Author:Pieter Zeeman