“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.” KindTwoEnoughMomentsTogetherHumanityVisionOne ThingPhotographyPhotographerPhotographRealismPhotography By PhotographersGreat PhotographyContainmentFilm PhotographyPhotography And FilmGood Photography Author:Robert Frank
“So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.” ShouldDoeRealitySufferingExamplePhotographyCaptureRealismRealist Author:Jean Baudrillard
“I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism - real life - the now.” WorldBelieveRealHomeI BelieveChallengesAcceptingCreativeElementsPhotographyPhotographerReal LifeMediumsOur TimeRealism Author:Berenice Abbott
“In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.” DoeRealityPhotographyObjectivesCertaintyRealismRepresentationConformObjectivityPatents Author:Pierre Bourdieu
“... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the real at all. I don't want to get into jargon - let's just say that photography to me no longer pertains to the rhetoric of realism; it pertains more perhaps to the rhetoric of the unreal rather than the real or of course the hyperreal.” WantNeedsRealTodayCoursesComputerPhotographyHappeningsRealismRhetoricUnrealJargonAlterationsImaging Author:Barbara Kruger
“I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, This is real, too.” WayGivingRealUnderstandingVisionSeeingPhotographyUniqueGive MeMediumsAweConventionalRealismConventional Ways Book:Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning Source: Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning