“One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years. It's epic. I had a great deal of difficulty understanding it. One of the problems was you'd be reading along in English and he would move to a Chinese ideogram or French-he actually used seven different languages in a given poem. And for somebody who's not fluent in different languages it has the impact of rupturing your way of understanding something.” WayYearsDifferentProblemMovingUsedReadingLanguageGivenUnderstandingDealsPhotographyDifficultyImpactSevenChinesePoundsEpicInfluentialDifferent LanguagesFluent Author:Richard Misrach
“The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.” ThinkingHas BeensMadeDifferentAmericaMovingNightOpportunityStageFieldsBuildingColorDevelopmentIndustryPhotographyLaborTradeMajorityAddFortuneInternationalOilInventionShipsDevelopingBranchesChemicalsEnteringBankingOne NightElectricalAircraftColossalOil IndustryColor PhotographyForeign Trade Author:B. C. Forbes
“Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly essential as a part of anthropological methods, the need for photographers with a disciplined knowledge of anthropology and for anthropologists with training in photography has increased. We expect that in the near future sophisticated training in photography will be a requirement for all anthropologists. (1962)” NeedsStillsUseMovingEssentialsPhotographyTrainingMethodPhotographerDependentSophisticatedRequirementsAnthropologyAnthropologists Author:Margaret Mead
“It always amazes me that just when I think there's nothing left to do in photography and that all permutations and possibilities have been exhausted, someone comes along and puts the medium to new use, and makes it his or her own, yanks it out of this kind of amateur status, and makes it as profound and as moving and as formally interesting as any other medium.” ThinkingKindHas BeensUseMovingLeftInterestingPossibilityPhotographyProfoundMediumsExhausted Author:Chuck Close
“Originally, one of the reasons I was drawn to photography, as opposed to painting or sculpture or installation, is that of all the arts it is the most democratic, in so far as it's instantly readable and accessible to our culture. Photography is how we move information back and forth.” ArtReasonMovingCultureInformationPaintingPhotographyDemocraticSculptureBack And ForthInstallation Author:Gregory Crewdson
“I think one of the shortcomings of reality, of real experience, is most people's inability to examine something carefully and thoughtfully without moving around or being distracted by something else. What photography does really is it forces you to examine something you normally wouldn't.” PeopleThinkingDoeRealRealityMovingForcePhotographyInabilityDistractedShortcomings Author:Grant Mudford
“Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to move you.” TryingMeanDifferentMovingForceSpaceTypePhotographyOneselfGravity Author:Shomei Tomatsu
“My biggest challenge was moving from photography to film without losing my way of working - which is very intimate and learning to collaborate with more people, since photography for me is a very solitary process.” PeopleWayFilmMovingProcessChallengesPhotographyLosingMy WayIntimateSolitary Author:Maya Goded
“I try to use photography to move people to action to save the wildlife in our beloved ocean.” PeopleTryingUseActionMovingOceanPhotographyBelovedWildlife Author:Tom Gruber
“For me, moving from photography to film was very easy.” FilmMovingEasyPhotography Author:Steven Sebring
“That's one of the troubles of photography; the implication that what you have in that photograph is the way it is, and of course a year later that's not the way it is. Life moves on and the picture stays. That can be a wonderful idea to be a part of history and on the other hand, you think pictures have a life that they don't have.” ThinkingMovingWonderfulTroublePhotographyPhotograph Author:Eugene Richards
“I've always thought that each album would be my last one, and then I would be out of ideas and I would move to photography or something. I thought it was transient and it's not because of this entrenched career stubbornness that I've done it for so long, it's just something I enjoy doing, and it's the most direct way I can express something.” LongDoneMovingEnjoyPhotographyDirectStubbornness Author:Tim Hecker
“Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.” MenWayArtIdeasLightMightFacesMovingFormStreetsBuildingPaperPhotographyPhotographerInventionRecognitionOld ManFreakAlchemyBlake Author:Duane Michals
“What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.” MeanLongMadeMovingChoicesStuffPaperPhotographyLong TimePhotographerTechniqueMysteriousHauntingVery DeepDevelopers Author:Diane Arbus
“If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.” IfsInspirationalMomentsMovingPhotographyPhotographerPhotographSnapsPhotography By PhotographersInspirational PhotographyCapturing A Moment Photography Author:Linda McCartney
“Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour.” PeopleIfsLongI CanMatterFactsLightMovingThreeWaitingHoursKnowingMinutesSubjectsGoes OnPhotographyLong TimeShadowCamerasPhotographerCloudsCowsMatter Of Fact Book:Edward Weston on photography Source: Edward Weston on photography
“Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own understanding. That's where self-doubt and risk taking are likely to occur. It's when you trust what's happening at a non-intellectual non-conscious level that you can produce work that later resonates, often in a way that you can't articulate a response to.” ThinkingWayWellsSelfMovingUnderstandingLevelsDoubtRiskProducePhotographyIntellectualHappeningsConsciousResponsePhotographerFringeRisk-takingSelf-doubt Author:Jerry Uelsmann
“"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?""” ThinkingWorldWantFeelsLooksDoeDreamEyeMovingAsksMy OwnSubjectsPhotographyConvictionReactionsStatementsPrintPersonal Statement Author:Ansel Adams
“But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the viewer or that, best of all, provokes the viewer to think-to ask a question or simply to gaze in thoughtful wonder. We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make. It is the kind of picture that makes you want to pick up your own camera again and go to work.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantKindDoeMovingAsksWonderInformationFinePhotographyPicksCamerasCuriosityPhotographerPhotographSeekingThoughtfulProvokingViewers Author:Sam Abell
“I don't know whether we think in moving images or whether we think in still images. I have a suspicion that on our hard drive, our series within our brains, [exist] still photographs of very important moments in our lives. ... That we think in terms of still images and that what the photography is doing is making direct contact with the human hard drive and recording for all time a sense of what happened.” ThinkingKnowsHumansStillsImportantHardMomentsMovingTermBrainOur LivesHappenedPhotographyDirectSeriesPhotographContactAll TimeSuspicionImportant MomentsMoments In Our Lives Author:Jon Snow