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“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.”

People Way Believe Stories Problem I Believe Powerful Clear Trouble Sea Serious Ocean Creating Photography Instruments Environmental Celebrate New Ways Highlights Environmental Problems

Author:Brian Skerry

“I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.”

Problem My Own Accepting Photography Conscience Tests Guilt

Author:Martin Parr

“I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.”

Feels Problem Might Streets Findings Photography Contempt Abusive Street Photography Photojournalism Objectifying

Author:Barbara Kruger

“One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years. It's epic. I had a great deal of difficulty understanding it. One of the problems was you'd be reading along in English and he would move to a Chinese ideogram or French-he actually used seven different languages in a given poem. And for somebody who's not fluent in different languages it has the impact of rupturing your way of understanding something.”

Way Years Different Problem Moving Used Reading Language Given Understanding Deals Photography Difficulty Impact Seven Chinese Pounds Epic Influential Different Languages Fluent

Author:Richard Misrach

“I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones, who have drawn too much inspiration from photography and who, over time, have a problem forming their own identity.”

Believe Important Sometimes Problem Inspiration I Believe Too Much Identity Source Photography Photographer Very Good

Author:Peter Lindbergh

“The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.”

Has Beens Problem Lasts Turns Century Photography Direct Colour

Author:Gabriel Lippmann

“Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent... the camera.”

Men Problem Technology Struggle Example Photography Machines Overcoming Cameras Photographer Dependent Paradoxical Mechanization

Author:Ernst Haas

“I wasn't very ambitious. I think that's the solution. I just took things as they came. I wouldn't say I didn't have any problem, but I didn't care. I didn't think I was going to save the world by doing photography as some of these people do. I was just having a good time doing it, and so I still had a good time no matter what I had to photograph.”

People Thinking World Stills Matter Problem Care Photography Solutions No Matter What Photograph Good Times Ambitious Having A Good Time Save The World Had A Good Time

Author:Imogen Cunningham

“I think that it was a great advantage to go into photography not knowing much about it. Not thinking. I think one of the problems with many photographers today is that they never see for themselves, but just like everybody else.”

Thinking Problem Today Knowing Photography Advantage Photographer Not Knowing

Author:Robert Mapplethorpe

“The persistent problem in photography is how to look at it.”

Looks Problem Photography Persistent

Author:Ben Maddow

“The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.”

Art Problem Eye Film Cases Special Painting Pride Photography Bases Cameras Video Mediums Dominant Extensions Nineteen Verdict Withered Pictorial Exemption

Author:Peter Schjeldahl

“I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture... but it is an engagement with a problem rather than a medium.”

Thinking Problem Culture Roles Photography Photographer Mediums Engaged Engagement

Book:Sarah Charlesworth: A Retrospective

Source: Sarah Charlesworth: A Retrospective

“I think my pictures are really about a kind of tension between my need to make a perfect picture and the impossibility of doing so. Something always fails, there's always a problem, and photography fails in a certain sense... This is what drives you to the next picture.”

Thinking Needs Kind Problem Certain Next Perfect Failing Photography Tension Impossibility

Author:Gregory Crewdson

“I think I'm really fortunate to be an installation artist who is heavily invested in photography: I don't have the emotional problems with the loss of work that some installation artists have. The photographs wouldn't exist without the installation... but at the same time, I think I'd kill myself if I only did installations. There's something deeply tragic about doing work that you know is temporal.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Problem Artist Loss Emotional Photography Photograph Fortunate Tragic Installation Emotional Problems

Author:Sandy Skoglund

“The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.”

Matter Problem Subjects Media Photography Visible Portraits Subject Matter

Author:Thomas Struth

“The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.”

Art Stills Problem Form Photography Art Is Complexes Contests Art History

Author:Garry Winogrand

“Newspaper photographs nowadays are highly tautologous. You'll have an article about, say, stopping the war. And the photograph that will be used is literally a poster that reads "Stop The War." Or you'll have a story about a cash crisis in Barcelona, and the only picture you'll see is an ATM in Barcelona. The problem is actually systemic. On the one hand, you'll have a picture of a soda can to "illustrate" an article about the dangers of sugary drinks. On the other hand, anything that's reasonable in documentary photography is snapped up by the art world and we never see it.”

World Art War Problem Danger Drink Photography Crisis Photograph Posters

Author:Stuart Franklin

“A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography is that it only deals with appearances.”

Problem Deals Grief Emotion Cry Photography Photograph Appearance Ecstasy Ecstatic

Author:Duane Michals

“I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.”

Thinking Art Problem Seems America Photography Photographer Educational Unimportant Educational System

Author:Chuck Close

“The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.”

Thinking Knows Should Stills Problem Sides Photography Cameras These Days Curves Steep Learning Curve

Author:Graeme Le Saux

“And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel. It is the hope that we might express ourselves fully-and the evidence that other photographers have done so-that keep us taking pictures.”

Thinking Needs Feels Important Done Problem Might Desire Strong Pleasure Seeing Expression Habit Photography Evidence Photographer Photograph Borders Capture Taking Pictures Strong Desire

Author:Sam Abell

“The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely here that honesty no less than intensity of vision is the pre-requisite of a living expression. The fullest realization of this is accomplished without tricks of process or manipulation, through the use of straight photographic methods.”

Use Problem Process Quality Vision Honesty Expression Photography Method Photographer Tricks Mediums Realization Limitation Accomplished Manipulation Intensity

Book:Paul Strand: a Retrospective Monograph: The years 1915-1946

Source: Paul Strand: a Retrospective Monograph: The years 1915-1946

“Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.”

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