“I've enjoyed photography, ever since I was a teenager, and I'm still at it. I've had shows in various cities, around the country, and I have a number of pieces in permanent collections in museums that I'm very proud of.” StillsCountryShowsNumbersCitiesPiecesProudPhotographyVariousEnjoyedTeenagerPermanentCollectionsMuseums Author:Leonard Nimoy
“I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.” PeopleSufferingWallPhotographyVictimMuseumsNot Interested Author:Richard Misrach
“[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 was necessary to] make my place in the art-world: in order to do this, I had to make a picture, since a picture was what a gallery or museum was meant to hold (all the while, of course, I was claiming that I was denying the standard, rejecting it...)” WorldArtOrderCoursesPhotographyStandardsMuseumsGalleryRejectingArt World Author:Vito Acconci
“Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at the service of truth, for concepts of credibility, of objectivity, the need to archive, for the consolidation of institutions like the museum, in short, towards a need to control memory.” NeedsLongMemoriesTechnologyCenturyPhotographyConceptsInstitutionsDistanceDetailsDescriptionMuseumsDefiningCredibilityObjectivityNineteenth CenturyLong DistanceArchivesRigorConsolidationOptics Author:Joan Fontcuberta
“Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products of this world have never been widely seen because the artists are often exploring things that are not already coded in general consciousness. It's not that photographers don't want to be famous, it's just that very few of the views from the edges of culture make the mainstream. Ansel Adams was an exception.” WorldWantArtArtistCultureViewsConsciousnessRocksThis WorldProductsFinePhotographyProgramPhotographerUniversityEdgesExceptionMuseumsMainstreamExploringGalleryFine ArtsRock MusicSmall WorldArt Photography Author:Mark Klett
“Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.” GivenPhotographyCollectionsMuseumsRigor Author:Bill Jay
“There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.” ThinkingArtStillsSchoolFormPhotographyOppositionMatureMuseumsArt School Author:Ansel Adams
“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.” ThinkingWaySpaceMagicPaintingPhotographySurfaceMediumsFlatsMuseumsLife ExperienceDirtAnother WayTranscendenceMake You Think Author:Chuck Close