“Composition in photography is almost as varied as composition in music or words -- melodic or atonal, safe or daring -- and can enhance subject, theme, and style. Every photograph you take involves you in some compositional decision, even if this is simply where to set up the camera or when to press the button.” IfsDecisionSubjectsStyleSafePhotographyCamerasPressesPhotographThemeDaringCompositionButtons Book:Basic Photography Source: Basic Photography
“While photography to Cartier-Bresson is constantly an intuitive process, it is never purely instinctive. It is founded on continuous intellection, on ceaseless consideration during all moments previous to, or preparatory for, the pressing. It does not only operate in the blinding flash of a moment seized; it works all the time. The snatched picture merely cuts across the vein of observable incident or accident which is always beating, whether or not the fingers actually press.” DoeMomentsProcessCuttingPhotographyPressesFingersAccidentsConsiderationFlashVeinsIntuitiveIncidentsCartier Author:Lincoln Kirstein
“Before the first press pictures, the ordinary man would visualize only those events that took place near him, on his street or in his village. Photography opened a window. As the reader's outlook expanded, the world began to shrink.” MenWorldFirstsStreetsEventsReaderPhotographyOrdinaryWindowPressesVillageOutlookShrinksOrdinary Man Author:Gisele Freund
“I am suspicious and disillusioned about the uses and misuses of photography in the art world, the press, and the world of entertainment. And to make things more complicated, I don't think that the general public is well educated regarding images. Generally we are taught how to read, but we are not taught how to look.” ThinkingWorldWellsLooksArtUseTaughtPhotographyPressesEntertainmentComplicatedEducatedSuspiciousArt WorldMisuseGeneral PublicDisillusionedWell Educated Author:Alfredo Jaar
“Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.” EventsPhotographyPressesPhotographCurrentsNakedArtisticLandscapeCurrent Events Author:Alexander Rodchenko
“One of the most recent things we did [in Perceval Press] is a reissue of a fantastic documentary about Russian prison tattoo culture by Alix Lambert called The Mark of Cain. We've done books from Twilight of Empire, that actually has forewords by Howard Zinn and Dennis Kucinich and others, to books of poetry, photography, painting - all kinds of books.” KindBookDoneCulturePaintingPhotographyMarkPressesPrisonAll KindsFantasticEmpiresTwilightTattooDocumentariesCain Author:Viggo Mortensen
“When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom.” ArtistChallengesViewsReadyPhotographyCamerasPressesReleaseEncountersCablesAnticipateDarkroom Author:John Sexton
“You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.” I CanImportantTeachPhotographyPressesLifetimePhotographerTechniqueShutters Author:Garry Winogrand