“I love to play the guitar. I also love photography and fashion.” PlayFashionPhotographyGuitarPhotography Love Author:Emily Osment
“When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling - fanciful storytelling - can only be told through fashion photography. It's the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams.” WayArtIdeasDifferentPlayDreamPerfectFantasyFashionCollegePhotographyDepthStorytellingDifferent ThingsArt PhotographyFashion Photography Author:Tim Walker
“Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play.” IfsPlayChanceResultsPhotographyPhotographerPhotographPoetic Author:Frederick Sommer
“Photography today is accomplishing a lofty mission in which every German should collaborate by buying a camera. The German people is ahead of every other in the technical domain and, thanks to its exceptional qualities, the small camera has conquered the whole world... Much is at stake here from the point of view of popular consumer goods and, furthermore, photography has a particularly important political role to play. (Addressing the Berlin Photography Fair, 1933)” PeopleWorldShouldImportantPlayWholeTodayPoliticalViewsQualityRolesPhotographyFairsCamerasMissionsPoint Of ViewWhole WorldThanksConsumersBuyingGoodsStakesExceptionalDomainBerlinLofty Author:Joseph Goebbels
“The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.” MenWayDoePlayFactsLyingFoundProcessResultsAchieveEssentialsPhotographySolutionsIllusionWitPsychologicalFactorsTransitionAppetiteSatisfyingReproductionBaroque Author:Andre Bazin
“I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.” WritingMeanBookPlayPhotography Author:Lou Reed
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” LifeInspirationalDifferentPlayMotivationalPurposeVisionFashionInspireIntegrityCreaturesPhotographyOrdinarySlavePhotographerMakeupDaringImaginativeCommonplaceBeing DifferentNonconformityPhotography By PhotographersGreat VisionFeeling StuckBeing WeirdDaring To Be Great Author:Cecil Beaton
“It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.” KnowsPlayLyingToo MuchAdventureTravelPhotographyLuckPhotographerStreamsPeculiarUnfairFunny TravelHook Book:A Way of Seeing Source: A Way of Seeing
“By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place at the right time. Go into it as young as possible. Bring all the asset you have and play to win.” PlayYoungWinningFateSpecialPhotographyPhotographerAssetsRight TimeRight PlaceGraciousnessPlay To Win Author:Margaret Bourke-White