“The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.” FeelsHumansEnoughExistenceCreaturesPhotographyTransformationCamerasNarrativeChronicles Book:Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
“In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives, deeply compelling.” FoundPhotographyDiscoveryTraditionalNarrativeSpiteTrendsCaptureCompelling Author:Richard Misrach
“Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.” KnowsWayTaughtFitPhotographyNarrativeNeat Author:Richard Misrach
“I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.” LittlesRoomsPhotographyLeavingNarrativeAngleViewersImplied Author:Keith Carter
“In 1990 I did a story with Helena Christensen about a woman who lives in a trailer in the middle of the desert and finds a little crushed UFO with a martian who has survived the crash. She takes him home, and they fall in love. Later he has to meet with his fellow martians who have arrived to rescue him. It's a sad ending. This was my first truly narrative story and apparently the first narrative story in fashion photography.” FirstsLittlesStoriesHomeFallMiddleFashionPhotographyFellowsFalling In LoveDesertNarrativeRescueCrashSurvivedCrushedUfoTrailersMartiansSad EndingFashion Photography Author:Peter Lindbergh
“I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to the body - the patterns and stripes and all of that.” StoriesBodyFashionPhotographyClothesPatternsNarrativeStripesFashion Photography Author:Chantal Joffe
“Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story.” WantGivingShouldStoriesElementsPhotographyNarrative Author:Sarah Moon
“It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will change or die. It is the future they are innocent of. Fifty years on we look at them with the godly knowledge of how they turne dout after all - who they married, the date of their death - with no thought for who will one day be holding photographs of us.” YearsLooksDiesSubjectsOne DayPhotographyMarriedIllusionPhotographInnocentInnocenceNarrativeIronyFiftyGodlyFrozenUnawareness Author:Ian Mcewan