Best photography & materials Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The photogram, image formation outside the camera is the real key to photography,it embodies the essence... that allows us to capture light on light sensitive material without the use of any camera.”

“It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I found people open and understanding of the importance and beauty of filmic storytelling. I never had to explain why Jake Bryant, my Director of Photography, and I were climbing up a ladder to get a high shot, or running ahead to get an arrival shot, or filming weeks after weeks, months after months, collecting so much material. The process was respected and honored.”

“The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.”

Light Memories Materials Photography Raw Materials

Book:A Certain Alchemy

Source: A Certain Alchemy

“I had the attitude that I would work with this present-day material and do the best I could to describe it with photography, not intending to make any particular comment about whether it was good or bad or whether I liked it or not. It was just there, and I was interested in it. That's what I still do today.”

Stills Today Attitude Particular Materials Photography Comment Do The Best Present Day

Author:William Eggleston

“The camera does not know what it takes; it captures materials with which you reconstruct, not so much what you saw as what you thought you saw. Hence the best photography is aware, mindful, of illusion and uses illusion, permitting and encouraging it - especially unconscious and powerful illusions that are not usually admitted on the scene.”

Knows Doe Use Powerful Saws Materials Scene Photography Illusion Cameras Unconscious Capture

Book:The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton

Source: The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton

“Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.”

World Kind Materials Photography Heroic Material World Overstatement

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“When I first started making photo pieces it wasn't with the idea of a commitment to the medium. I didn't think I would have to become a photographer to make my photographs. I recall that anything could be used as material for art in that era. Photography was just one more thing.”

Thinking Firsts Art Ideas Used Pieces Materials Photography Commitment Photographer Photograph Mediums Eras Just One Recalls

Author:William Wegman

“For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of art from commerce as distinct semiotic practices that never interlock.”

Art Practice Materials Photography Notion Separation Commerce Formal Rejecting Semiotics

Book:Readings and writings: semiotic counter-strategies

Source: Readings and writings: semiotic counter-strategies

“Something about photography is tied to a very specific relationship with the material world. It doesn't have to be, but the way I practice it, it is. So there's an act of observation, but it's not an act of objective recording. It's about framing something and seeing it and understanding that it's relational.”

World Way Understanding Practice Seeing Materials Photography Objectives Observation Tied Material World Framing

Author:Zoe Leonard

“I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.”

Wells Film Materials Photography Draws Paint Presenting General Public

Author:Paul Kane

“If the quality of professional materials continues to erode or even dries up, then many of us silver photographers would have to follow the digital tidal wave. It certainly wouldn't be the end of the world, but in my opinion, having no silver material available would be a huge loss to photography.”

Ifs World Ends Would Be Loss Quality Opinion Materials Huge Photography Photographer Wave Available Digital Silver End Of The World Erode Tidal Waves

Author:Michael Kenna

“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.”

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Book:Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography

Source: Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography

“Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.”

Mean Subjects Painting Materials Photography

Author:Nigel Dennis

“It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I'd be out shooting all the time. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you.”

Ifs Feelings Chance Materials Photography Photographer Variety Shooting Staring Generous Staring At You

Author:Lee Friedlander

“At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection of time, space, light, and emotional stance. One needs to be still enough, observant enough, and aware enough to recognize the life of the materials, to be able to 'hear through the eyes'.”

Needs Art Stills Enough Light Eye Able Space Creativity Emotional Materials Photography Roots Photographer Details Impulse Make Sense Stance Through The Eyes Intersections Observant

Book:New England Days

Source: New England Days

“I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a landscape that I need to first explore in my mind's eye if I am to make it manifest as an artful image in silver.”

Ifs Needs Mind Firsts Eye Materials Type Photography Photographer Landscape Silver Manifest Salt Constructs Liquid Developers Terrain Fixers

Book:New England Days

Source: New England Days

“What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.”

“The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're not supposed to look at the thing, you're supposed to look through it. It's a window.”

Looks Beautiful Materials Photography Window Photograph Oil Canvas Ivory Tapestry Bronze

Author:John Szarkowski

“"You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene before, but never like that." It is the kind of photography that relies for its strengths not on special equipment or effects but on the intensity of the photographer's seeing. It is the kind of photography in which the raw materials-light, space, and shape-are arranged in a meaningful and even universal way that gives grace to ordinary objects."”

“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.”

Way Light Would Be Subjects Objects Painting Materials Photography Standards Crosses Photograph Wave Interpretation Nails Resemblance Resemblance Is Light Waves

Author:Susan Sontag

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