“photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.” SeeingPhotographyEthicsNotionPhotographGrammar Book:On photography Source: On photography
“Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography?” HumansMeanIdeasEndsSeemsFormBalanceBehaviorPhotographyNotionProportionMotivatedHuman Behavior Author:James Nachtwey
“The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the simple question: Could such and such a fact, as it is narrated here, have been photographed?” Has BeensFactsValuesSimpleMeditationPhotographyHistoricalMereNotionIntroducingGenesisTrue ValueHistorical Knowledge Author:Paul Valery
“What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty of the instant and of these surprising points of view that appear for a brief moment and never return; those are what make photography an art.” ArtImportantMomentsViewsAwarenessReturnPhotographyNotionPoint Of ViewInstantSurprisingBrief Moments Author:Raoul Hausmann
“I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography. It's the metaphor for the notion of first sight. What one saw first.” ThinkingFirstsRoomsSawsPhotographySightNotionMetaphor Author:Robert Polidori
“Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals of the arriviste. Inasmuch as one of those rituals consists of the establishment of suitable ancestry, a search for distinguished bloodlines, it inevitably happens that photographic history and criticism are more concern with notions of tradition and continuity than with those of rupture and change.” LongArtSeemsHappensFinePhotographyConcernTraditionCriticismNotionRitualEstablishmentConventionalDiscourseDestinedDistinguishedContinuitySuitableFine ArtsAncestryRuptureArt PhotographyBloodline Author:Abigail Solomon-Godeau
“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.” ArtPracticeMaterialsPhotographyNotionSeparationCommerceFormalRejectingSemiotics Book:Readings and writings: semiotic counter-strategies Source: Readings and writings: semiotic counter-strategies
“When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students and I try to expand the terminology we use to talk about poetry as well as expand our notion of what makes a poem - we read source texts on architecture, dance, photography, film and the graphic novel.” TryingWellsUseFilmClassTeachNovelStudentsSourcePhotographyNotionArchitectureGraduatesTopicsGraphicGraphic NovelsTerminologySeminars Author:Matthea Harvey
“I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I come from a philosophy that believes you shouldn't have preconceived notions - that you don't need a gimmick. That you should just photograph what you react to - what you see.” ThinkingNeedsShouldMindBelieveLooksPhilosophyWalksStreetsParticularPhotographyNotionPhotographerPhotographGimmicksPreconceived Notions Author:Elliott Erwitt