“If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.” IfsMeanArtPerfectPowerfulIdentityPhotographyOrdinaryAspectAbsolutesDisappearDrawingClosestScrutinyResemblanceAbsolute TruthMicroscopesPhotogenic Author:Edgar Allan Poe
“The oceans are in trouble. There are some serious problems out there that I believe are not clear to many people. My hope is to continually find new ways of creating images and stories that both celebrate the sea yet also highlight environmental problems. Photography can be a powerful instrument for change.” PeopleWayBelieveStoriesProblemI BelievePowerfulClearTroubleSeaSeriousOceanCreatingPhotographyInstrumentsEnvironmentalCelebrateNew WaysHighlightsEnvironmental Problems Author:Brian Skerry
“Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.” HandsPowerfulPhotographyRingsStatementsMediumsPropagandaPersuasionManipulator Book:Basic Photography Source: Basic Photography
“But everyone cannot be there, and that is why photographers go there - to show them, to reach out and grab them and make them stop what they are doing and pay attention to what is going on - to create pictures powerful enough to overcome the diluting effects of the mass media and shake people out of their indifference - to protest and by the strength of that protest to make others protest.” PeopleEnoughShowsPowerfulPayAttentionEffectsMediaPhotographyMassOvercomingPhotographerPay AttentionIndifferenceShakesProtestReach OutMass Media Author:James Nachtwey
“The camera does not know what it takes; it captures materials with which you reconstruct, not so much what you saw as what you thought you saw. Hence the best photography is aware, mindful, of illusion and uses illusion, permitting and encouraging it - especially unconscious and powerful illusions that are not usually admitted on the scene.” KnowsDoeUsePowerfulSawsMaterialsScenePhotographyIllusionCamerasUnconsciousCapture Book:The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton Source: The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton
“You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)” BlackPowerfulPhotographyWeaponsGunCamerasAfrican AmericanLapMilitantPistolsHandgunsPanthersCameramanBlack PantherCleaver Author:Gordon Parks
“Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism... Postmodernism looked radical, but it wasn't. As a movement it was profoundly liberal and became a victim of itself. Precisely at this historical moment, when multicultural democracy is the order of the day, photography can be used as a powerful weapon toward instituting political and cultural change. I for one will continue to work toward this end.” BelieveStillsEndsMomentsPoliticalUsedOrderI BelievePowerfulDemocracyMovementWindPhotographyWeaponsStandingVictimHistoricalActivismRadicalChampionPostmodernismMulticulturalPowerful WeaponsCultural Change Author:Carrie Mae Weems
“I believed it was necessary to investigate photography, dismantle it, jettison all the non-essential components, and begin again with a stripped down but more powerful idea of what is, or could be photographic.” IdeasPowerfulEssentialsPhotographyComponentsBegin Again Author:Lewis Baltz
“For example, you now look at pictures from 1968, they are hugely misleading in terms of standing in as an absolute image of the time. Because maybe two percent of the people looked the way that we now associate with that time. I was also aware that what I was aiming for is an idealized, utopian version of how people could be together. I found photography to be a very powerful tool because as long as it looks real, it is perceived as real.” PeopleLongRealTogetherTermPowerfulPhotographyVery PowerfulMisleadUtopian Author:Wolfgang Tillmans
“We don't understand what photography is doing. We don't understand the power of its rhetoric. We don't understand why the Provoke photographers showed Tokyo city as a ghastly and alien city when it was really going through this period of mega-capitalist growth. It's a very, very, very powerful force, the photograph. People ask me why it has such an ability to captivate us. And I just don't know.” PeopleGrowthAbilityPowerfulPhotographyPhotographerPhotographAliensAsk MeRhetoricProvokingVery Powerful Author:Stuart Franklin
“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.” PowerfulExpressionCommunicationOffersPerceptionPhotographyInfinitePhotographerPhotographMediumsVarietyInterpretationExecutionInspirational PhotographyInspiring PhotographyArt PhotographyLandscape PhotographyDoors Of Perception Book:Singular images Source: Singular images
“I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.” WorldHumansSometimesEyeRealizingDifferencesPowerfulPhotographyCamerasPhotographHuman EyesCamera And Photography Author:Galen Rowell
“My pictures are about a search for a moment—a perfect moment. To me the most powerful moment in the whole process is when everything comes together and there is that perfect, beautiful, still moment. And for that instant, my life makes sense.” InspirationalStillsWholeMomentsTogetherBeautifulProcessPerfectPowerfulLife PhilosophyPhotographyMake SenseInstantMeaning Of LifeMost PowerfulMoments In TimePerfect MomentsBeautiful Moments Author:Gregory Crewdson