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“Practice the mechanics of making photographs until it becomes second nature.”

Practice Photography Photograph Mechanic

Author:Fred Picker

“I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and then to combine this with a conceptual art practice. But thinking back, that was the wrong decision [laughs]. Developing a low-quality aesthetic is a sign of serious fine art-I still see this.”

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Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“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.”

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Author:Debra Granik

“The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself”

Mean Reality Practice Photography

Author:Ai Weiwei

“The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the flaws everywhere, in any practice of photography. Traditional genres in particular-journalism, documentary studies, and fine-art photography-have become shells, or forms emptied of meaning.”

“The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some sort of objectivity, digital imaging is an overtly fictional process. As a practice that is known to be capable of nothing but fabrication, digitization abandons even the rhetoric of truth that has been such an important part of photography's cultural success.”

Has Beens Stills Important Seems Process Differences Known Practice Photography Capable Claims Digital Abandon Rhetoric Objectivity Fabrication Imaging

Book:Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History

Source: Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History

“Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt, a process, a vehicle, a collective pursuit, and not just the physical end product of solitary artists' endeavors.”

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Author:Charlotte Cotton

“I believe that the medium of photography prevails entirely as an act of faith in the souls of those who love and practice it. And so every photograph becomes another subtle variation on the theme of the medium itself.”

Believe Soul I Believe Practice Photography Photograph Mediums Theme Subtle Variation

Author:Ralph Gibson

“The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it is history. The photography that I practice takes place in a specific time and place, depicting real moments in people's lives. In some ways I think of myself as a historian, but not of the word. History is most often written from a distance, and rarely from the viewpoint of those who endured it.”

People Thinking Way Real Moments Past Practice Written Photography Distance Photograph Historian Viewpoints

Author:Chris Killip

“Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of loved beings who are no longer alive. But there is another real death which each of us undergoes every day, as each day we draw nearer to our own death. Even when the person photographed is still living, that moment when she or he was has forever vanished.”

Way Persons Stills Different Real Moments Social Memories Practice Forever Alive Photography Draws Photograph Different Ways Each Day That Moment Linked Explicit

Author:Christian Metz

“[Photography] is the non-complacence of the eye. To practice my right to look is also a critical attitude. If I stare at you, I will make you uncomfortable, and culturally we have a difficulty of staring and being stared at.”

Ifs Looks Eye Attitude Practice Photography Difficulty Critical Staring Uncomfortable

Author:Pedro Meyer

“For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of art from commerce as distinct semiotic practices that never interlock.”

Art Practice Materials Photography Notion Separation Commerce Formal Rejecting Semiotics

Book:Readings and writings: semiotic counter-strategies

Source: Readings and writings: semiotic counter-strategies

“'Ornithologists concluded that migratory birds take hundreds of naps as they fly; they also practice unilateral eye closure, in which one eye closes, thereby permitting half the brain to sleep.' Is this what happens when photographers close one eye to look through a viewfinder? If so, they might be operating with only half a brain. Perhaps that explains.”

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Author:Bill Jay

“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.”

World Way Understanding Practice Seeing Materials Photography Objectives Observation Tied Material World Framing

Author:Zoe Leonard

“I started thinking of digital imaging, not photography, in 1994 as it seemed the most appropriate way to deal with ideas of biotechnology and advertising. My practice is conceptual.”

Thinking Way Ideas Deals Practice Photography Advertising Appropriate Digital Biotechnology Imaging

Author:Patricia Piccinini

“In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.”

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Author:Ansel Adams

“I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice.”

Eye Film Order Three Practice Photography Photographer Cassettes

Author:Josef Koudelka

“I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.”

Practice Photography Photographer

Author:Minor White

“Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need practice and application of what you've learned. My absolute conviction is that if you are working reasonably well the only important thing is to keep shooting...it doesn't matter whether you are making money or not. Keep working, because as you go through the process of working things begin to happen.”

“In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make the pictures.”

Thinking Doe Matter Practice Issues Subjects Photography Concern Philosophical Photographer Photograph Subject Matter

Author:John Szarkowski

“Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.”

Should Art Practice Photography Overcoming Fundamentals Overcoming Fear Conceiving

Author:Chase Jarvis