“I think when you practice photography or observation, you're on high alert. You polish up your antenna and stick up your head, and you're out there. You're receptive, appreciative of details. It heightens reality. You're trying to step into your alertness.” ThinkingTryingRealityStepsPracticePhotographySticksDetailsObservationPolishReceptiveAppreciativeAlertnessAntenna Author:Debra Granik
“Satellite photography in the 1970's gave rise to the long-range weather forecast, a month at a time. This in turn gave rise to the observation that the long-range weather forecast was wrong most of the time. In turn, this gave rise to the dropping of the long-range weather forecast and to the admission that really accurate forecasting could only cover the next day or two, and not always then.” LongTwoTurnsNextMonthsPhotographyWeatherObservationRangeAccurateNext DayDroppingAdmissionSatellitesForecastsForecasting Author:Miles Kington
“I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.” ThinkingWayNeedsWritingMeanPersonsArtEyeTogetherFrontsHonestyPhotographyArt IsObservationRelatedTelling The TruthAccuracyEloquent Author:Eudora Welty
“[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)” MomentsArtistPhotographyCapableContemporaryObservationDocumentariesRight MomentSeizingContemporary LifeDocumentary Photography Author:Pierre Mac Orlan
“Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating, jamming, and I think, staging.... taking that moment of observation and letting it go, giving it some wings, following it, rather than nailing it. You're riffing off of reality.” ThinkingGivingMomentsRealityLiteratureInterestingFictionPhotographyWingsFollowingObservationDescriptionThat MomentLet It GoStaging Author:Larry Sultan
“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
“It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.” WorldMayNaturalPhotographyIntentionPhotographerMediumsObservationIntuitiveSpectatorsNatural WorldLandscape PhotographyFilm PhotographyPhotography And Film Author:Ansel Adams
“Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt.” HumansMayArtMatterFeltBrainSeeingMysteryTalentTastePhotographyLeavingPhotographerDelightReputationObservationCaptureDefiningProjection Author:Walker Evans