“I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.” ThinkingMenHappensCan DoWhitePeriodsPhotographyDiscoveryPhotographerHeat Author:Walker Evans
“It never seemed important to me that my photos be published. It's important that I take them. There were periods where I didn't have money, and I would imagine that someone would come to me and say: 'Here is money, you can go do your photography, but you must not show it.' I would have accepted right away. On the other hand, if someone had come to me saying: 'Here is money to do your photography, but after your death it must be destroyed,' I would have refused.” IfsImportantShowsHandsImaginePeriodsPhotographyPhotographerAcceptedDestroyedImagine That Author:Josef Koudelka
“The durational aspect of video art is very different from photography or sculpture. The idea of looping things interferes with that a little bit. It eliminates that finite viewing period which I think is not so expressive sometimes.” ThinkingLittlesArtIdeasDifferentSometimesBitsPeriodsPhotographyLittle BitArt IsAspectVideoInterfereFiniteSculptureExpressive Author:Marco Brambilla
“I like getting my ideas from the things of now. I am very conscious of the moment, of images that belong to this moment instead of another period. Fashion is really a reflection of our lives. You see women today and they don't do their hair up; they all wear their hair undone. So you have to reflect that in your photography .” IdeasMomentsTodayOur LivesFashionHairPeriodsPhotographyReflectionConsciousUndoneHair Up Author:Mario Testino
“It occurs to me that at the beginning one works passionately to learn photography. This takes years, and the craft is usually formed during this period. Then as time passes one finds oneself more in the role of serving the medium... Then, as in the example of several masters that I have been privileged to know personally, it appears that by having devoted oneself totally to the medium, one becomes photography.” KnowsYearsHas BeensRolesExampleMastersPeriodsPhotographyOneselfMediumsCraftsServingDevotedPrivilegedTime Passes Author:Ralph Gibson
“I went back to photography in the 1990s. But from the 60s to the 90s I didn't really take any photographs at all, unfortunately. During that period I lived in France, I lived in England, I lived all over the place in different cities. I didn't take any photographs and because I felt I had really accomplished everything that I wanted to in photography during the period between 61 and 67.” DifferentWantedFeltCitiesPeriodsPhotographyEnglandPhotographFranceAccomplished Author:Dennis Hopper
“In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.” ValuesOrderPeriodsPhotographySurprisePhotographFamiliarSophisticatedInitialsNotableDecreeReversal Author:Roland Barthes