“The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.” IfsLooksArtHandsBitsPaperPhotographyCamerasVideoBoresPencilsVideo Cameras Author:David Hockney
“Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality... Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.” PeopleHardShowsRealityLyingRolesFashionPaperPhotographyNewsPhotographDeceptionPropagandaGlamorous Author:Martin Parr
“Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.” PeopleLooksPaperPhotographyMagazinesThank GodPapers Book:Free Admission Source: Free Admission
“In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped, or resolved in a realm of quiet, well in advance of, or between, the actual clicking of shutters and the sloshing of films and papers in chemical solutions. I work to attain a state of heart, a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of the spirit.” WorldYearsWellsHeartStatesFilmSpiritBornSpaceVisionQuietPaperPhotographySolutionsSubstanceGentleRealmsChemicalsOfferingI Have LearnedPapersShutters Author:Paul Caponigro
“White is the color of decomposition. White is also no color. White is nothing. In photography, the paper is white, next comes the light, which is also white, then the shadow is created, the apparition.” LightNextWhiteColorPaperPhotographyShadowApparitionsDecompositionColor White Book:Dieter Appelt Source: Dieter Appelt
“I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on the wall, often presented in a tedious white matt frame.” FactsWhiteStrugglePiecesWallPaperPhotographySilentTedious Author:Michael Light
“Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.” ArtArtistPiecesProductsPaperPhotographyPhotographerFinishedArtisticBlankCanvasPhotography By PhotographersInspirational PhotographyGreat PhotographyBlank CanvasBlank PaperProfessional Photographer Author:Edward Steichen
“Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.” MenWayArtIdeasLightMightFacesMovingFormStreetsBuildingPaperPhotographyPhotographerInventionRecognitionOld ManFreakAlchemyBlake Author:Duane Michals
“What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.” MeanLongMadeMovingChoicesStuffPaperPhotographyLong TimePhotographerTechniqueMysteriousHauntingVery DeepDevelopers Author:Diane Arbus
“The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don't know what to do with it.” KnowsLittlesLongEnoughFactsUseLostPiecesInformationMastersGoes OnBecomingPaperPhotographyCapacityPhotographerEndlessMediumsStayingEquipmentCagesLensesOne PieceGadgetsMazesSquirrelsDevelopersBecoming Lost Author:Edward Weston
“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