Best photography & purpose Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Max Kozloff said to me one day, ‘You’re not really a photographer. You do photography, but you do it for your own purposes – your purposes are not the same as others’. I’m not quite sure what he meant, but I like that. I like the way he put it.”

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Author:Saul Leiter

“It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.”

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Book:Of time & place: Walker Evans and William Christenberry

Source: Of time & place: Walker Evans and William Christenberry

“I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only purpose while I'm working is to try to make interesting photographs, and what to do with them is another act - an alter consideration. Certainly while I'm working, I want them to be as useless as possible.”

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Author:Garry Winogrand

“... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.”

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Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“Making these photographs has often seemed to me like a kind of dance. Often I have danced badly and the world has fallen apart at my feet. But sometimes the dance has gone well and my subject and I have moved together as if with shared purpose.”

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Author:Keith Carter

“I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.”

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Author:W. Eugene Smith

“Above all, the photographs I use are not arty in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as fine art; its only place is in the commercial world, for technical or information purposes.”

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Book:Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments

Source: Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments

“Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.”

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Author:John Szarkowski

“Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.”

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Book:This is the Day: The March on Washington

Source: This is the Day: The March on Washington

“Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer and the use he makes of his theme. When photography fails... it is usually because a false separation has been imposed on form and content.”

Doe Has Beens Facts Use Form Purpose Failing Photography Cameras Photographer Separation Theme Isolated Entity Aesthetics Inseparable

Author:Sid Grossman

“The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.”

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Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“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.”

“Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multi-media montage - the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case, the eyes have it, and the imagination will always soar farther than was expected.”

“The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts with the photographer's thinking about the subject he photographs and is continued in the mind of the spectator.”

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Author:Roman Vishniac

“In previous ages the word 'art' was used to cover all forms of human skill. The Greeks believed that these skills were given by the gods to man for the purpose of improving the condition of life. In a real sense, photography has fulfilled the Greek ideal of art; it should not only improve the photographer, but also improve the world.”

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Author:David Hurn

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