“But everyone cannot be there, and that is why photographers go there - to show them, to reach out and grab them and make them stop what they are doing and pay attention to what is going on - to create pictures powerful enough to overcome the diluting effects of the mass media and shake people out of their indifference - to protest and by the strength of that protest to make others protest.” PeopleEnoughShowsPowerfulPayAttentionEffectsMediaPhotographyMassOvercomingPhotographerPay AttentionIndifferenceShakesProtestReach OutMass Media Author:James Nachtwey
“Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like to have sex with or plots that are more likely to make their dates have sex with them. Reviewers are doing their day's work, cinema-goers are escaping from theirs: this leads to an inevitable difference of response. It is, though, wrong to conclude that reviewers are completely useless. Books, movies and shows may be critic-proof, but the egos and psyches of the people who make them very rarely are.” PeopleGivingMayBookShowsStarsSexDifferencesActingAudienceEgoPhotographyMassMarkResponseCriticsProofInevitableUselessGenreCinemaPlotOriginalityFamiliarityEscapingReviewersPsych Author:Mark Lawson
“[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in the age of photography] the world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other museum and to say that the camera cannot lie is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practiced in its name.” PeopleWorldHumansHas BeensAgeLyingTurnsNamesObjectsPhotographyMassCamerasPhotographProportionDeceitMuseumsMultipleMerchandise Author:Marshall McLuhan
“Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.” PeopleTurnsProductsPhotographyMassConsumers Author:Marshall McLuhan
“Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.” PeopleArtFormConsciousnessPhotographyMassMirrorsRepresentationOrganizer Author:El Lissitzky
“Photography is a mechanical device; photomontage is a piece of work done with the products of photography. This entire process forms one whole... If I assemble documents and juxtapose them with intelligence and skill, the effect of agitation and propaganda on the masses will be enormous.” IfsDoneWholeFormProcessPiecesEffectsProductsSkillsPhotographyMassEnormousPropagandaDevicesDocumentsWork DoneAgitation Author:John Heartfield
“Photography works upon the human eye: what is seen is reflected in the brain without the need for complicated thought. In this way the bourgeoisie takes advantage of the mental indolence of the masses and does good business as well.” WayNeedsHumansWellsDoeEyeBrainPhotographyMassAdvantageComplicatedBourgeoisieIndolenceGood BusinessHuman Eyes Author:Willi Munzenberg
“The most striking feature of the new is the sheer mass. Photography was previously a mass phenomenon, but now, quantity is doubtless the outstanding quality. For a long time photos have been taken frequently and everywhere, but now photos are taken permanently and everywhere,... What is new is that we can watch them practically in real time.” LongHas BeensRealQualityWatchesTakenPhotographyMassLong TimeFeaturesPhenomenonQuantitySheerOutstanding Author:Joachim Schmid
“I had my young eyes opened by the impersonal blood and guts of news photography. I was running the gamut every low man on the totem pole runs - country clubs to mass murder.” MenCountryEyeRunningYoungBloodPhotographyNewsMassLowsMurderClubsGutsTotemsCountry Clubs Author:Burk Uzzle
“We struggle against easel painting not because it is an aesthetic form of painting, but because it is not modern, for it does not succeed in bringing out the technical side, it is a redundant, exclusive art, and cannot be of any use to the masses. Hence we are struggling not against painting but against photography carried out as if it were an etching, a drawing, a picture in sepia or watercolor.” IfsDoeArtUseFormSidesStruggleModernPaintingSucceedPhotographyMassDrawingAestheticExclusiveRedundantWatercolorsEtching Author:Alexander Rodchenko
“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.” GivingLightFormSpiritGoalMagicPhotographyMassShadowIdealsPhotographerClarityProportionQuestsEmphasisSimplifyDominatingLight And Shadow Author:Ruth Bernhard