“I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.” BelieveRealityPhotographyDon't BelieveObjectivesObjective Reality Author:James Nachtwey
“When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?” ShouldArtistRealizingSubjectsPaintingPhotographyCamerasObjectivesPersistLenses Author:Pablo Picasso
“In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.” DoeRealityPhotographyObjectivesCertaintyRealismRepresentationConformObjectivityPatents Author:Pierre Bourdieu
“I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was objective.” BelieveWholeI BelievePhotographyObjectivesBeing TrueUntrue Author:Tibor Kalman
“Photography, precisely because it can only be produced in the present and because it is based on what exists objectively before the camera, takes its place as the most satisfactory medium for registering objective life in all its aspects, and from this comes its documental value. If to this is added sensibility and understanding and, above all, a clear orientation as to the place it should have in the field of historical development, I believe that the result is something worthy of a place in social production, to which we should all contribute.” IfsShouldBelieveValuesI BelieveSocialUnderstandingResultsClearFieldsDevelopmentPhotographyAspectShould HaveCamerasHistoricalProductionsWorthyObjectivesMediumsSensibilityOrientation Author:Tina Modotti
“The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of photography with death. Immobility and silence are not only two objective aspects of death, they are also its main symbols, they figure it.” TwoSilenceFiguresAuthorityPhotographyAspectImportanceObjectivesSymbolsRemarksLeading Me Author:Christian Metz
“If you look at most photography, especially the pictures that grab you, they are not objective at all. Sometimes gut wrenching and sometimes lovely, but the moment someone decides to release the shutter, it is an editorial statement.” IfsLooksSometimesMomentsPhotographyLovelyStatementsObjectivesReleaseGutsEditorialsShutters Author:John Filo
“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.” WorldWayUnderstandingPracticeSeeingMaterialsPhotographyObjectivesObservationTiedMaterial WorldFraming Author:Zoe Leonard
“The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.” FirstsHumansHeartMeanHas BeensArtOrderChallengesHuman BeingsCitiesMysteryStreetsPhotographyIntellectualMachinesBallsPhotographerObjectivesVisualsSensiblePortraitsSelectionFrameworkObjectivityCity StreetsBouncing Ball Author:Berenice Abbott
“The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.” WorldMaySaidTogetherThreeTermSimpleConditionsElementsPaperPhotographyPhotographObjectivesPermanentDisorderSheets Book:Aaron Siskind, photographer Source: Aaron Siskind, photographer