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“The magic possibility of framing a certain space and time is what brought me to photography. This process of recording elements of 3 dimensions in the flow of time, and fixing them in a 2 dimensional image, creates a new context for the elements of the photograph.”

Certain Process Space Magic Possibility Elements Photography Flow Photograph Dimensions Time And Space Fixing Framing

Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“I think there is an element of magic in photography - light, chemistry, precious metals - a certain alchemy. You can wield a camera like a magic wand almost. Murmur the right words and you can conjure up proof of a dream. I believe in wonder. I look for it in my life every day; I find it in the most ordinary things.”

“"It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the day has a distinct quality, as it fades toward the darkness of evening. After sunset there is a gentle leaving of the light, the air begins to still, and a quiet descends. I see magic in the quiet light of dusk. I feel quiet, yet intense energy in the natural elements of our habitat. A sense of magic prevails. A sense of mystery. It is a time for contemplation, for listening - a time for making photographs. "”

“We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.”

Artist Challenges Magic Photography Quitting Mediums Keep Going Never Quit

Author:John Sexton

“Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.”

Magic Photography Currents Pursuit Conventions Hobbies Commodity Spectators Saturated Inception Mingling

Book:Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances

Source: Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances

“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.”

“For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.”

Moments Process Magic Photography Exciting Photographer Frustrating Printing Disappointing Darkroom

Author:John Sexton

“Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.”

Love Is Magic Photography Meetings Levels Of Life

Author:Julian Barnes

“Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.”

Thinking Way Space Magic Painting Photography Surface Mediums Flats Museums Life Experience Dirt Another Way Transcendence Make You Think

Author:Chuck Close

“You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.”

Ifs Magic Photography Musician Photographer Great Music Great Musician

Author:Eve Arnold

“I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows in how I arrange things. It's always little altars.”

Children Littles Stills Shows Certain Church Boys Magic Mystery Photography Catholic Photographer Sunday Altars

Author:Robert Mapplethorpe

“My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. To indicate the ideal proportion, to reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.”

Giving Light Form Spirit Goal Magic Photography Mass Shadow Ideals Photographer Clarity Proportion Quests Emphasis Simplify Dominating Light And Shadow

Author:Ruth Bernhard

“Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.”

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Book:The role of the artist in conservation

Source: The role of the artist in conservation

“A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time... Everything was touched with magic.”

Kind Remember Hours Magic Photography Golden Touched Life Time Golden Hour

Author:Margaret Bourke-White

“The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.”

Art Reality Past Magic Photography Photograph Copies Realist

Author:Roland Barthes

“Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.”

Art Real Magic Photography Trade Photograph Prestige

Book:On photography

Source: On photography