“I've been doing photography in one form or another for, oh golly, over seventy years. I don't carry cameras. I used to. For many years I carried cameras wherever I went. Photograph whatever I saw that was of interest. In the last years, I've only used cameras to explore thematic ideas which presented themselves first. And then bring out the cameras to try to explore that idea.” TryingYearsFirstsIdeasLastsFormUsedInterestSawsPhotographyCamerasPhotographLast YearSeventiesThematic Author:Leonard Nimoy
“So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.” KidsNaturalSawsPhotographyCamerasInspiredPhotographerExtensions Author:John Sexton
“You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.” SawsPhotographyMereErasFixedChemicalsEpisodesProjectionNew Era Author:David Hockney
“The camera does not know what it takes; it captures materials with which you reconstruct, not so much what you saw as what you thought you saw. Hence the best photography is aware, mindful, of illusion and uses illusion, permitting and encouraging it - especially unconscious and powerful illusions that are not usually admitted on the scene.” KnowsDoeUsePowerfulSawsMaterialsScenePhotographyIllusionCamerasUnconsciousCapture Book:The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton Source: The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton
“I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography. It's the metaphor for the notion of first sight. What one saw first.” ThinkingFirstsRoomsSawsPhotographySightNotionMetaphor Author:Robert Polidori
“I'm shooting a gangbanger, but as a dignified man. That's pretty much what war photography did: seeing images of soldiers in a dignified way. They might have been killers in Vietnam, but I'm seeing another side of them, and looking at images of the the American soldiers, also the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong - I never saw an enemy.” MenWayHas BeensWarMightSidesEnemySawsSeeingPhotographySoldierShootingVietnamKillersMight Have BeenVietnameseAmerican SoldierViet Cong Author:Jamel Shabazz
“One of my oldest friends from Kansas, his sister was married to Ben [Folds] and wrote lyrics on his first couple of albums. I got to meet him the first time I saw them in concert at The Bottleneck, a great bar in Lawrence, Kansas. Then, he was the musical guest my first or second week as a writer on SNL. I was like, "I don't know if you remember me?" And he was like, "Oh my god, yeah!" He's a big photography fan, as am I.” IfsKnowsFirstsBigsRememberSawsWeekFansCouplePhotographyMarriedFirst TimeYeahMusicalAlbumsBarsConcertsGuestsFoldsRemember MeKansasSnlBottlenecksOldest Friends Author:Jason Sudeikis
“You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me.” KnowsChildrenAbleBeautifulTurnsThreeFatherParentActingBehindsCareersSawsPhotographyPercentHobbiesSupportiveExceptionalOnly ChildGreat Friend Author:Sophia Bush
“If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.” IfsSawsPhotographyPhotographerPhotographFamiliarShakesPhotography By PhotographersInspirational PhotographyInspiring PhotographyStreet PhotographyShake It Up Author:Garry Winogrand
“The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. There is something demoralizing about going back to a place to retake pictures. You can no longer see your subjects in a fresh eye; you keep comparing them with the pictures you hold in your memory. [The] world was full of discoveries waiting to be made...(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned...you would react to something all others might walk by.” WorldWantNeedsWellsMadeImportantMightEyeWaitingMemoriesWalksSawsShareSubjectsWalkingElementsPhotographyDiscoveryPhotographerCompareRepeatsNew WorldStimulusOur MemoriesWants And NeedsDemoralizingWalking Forward Author:Margaret Bourke-White
“I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on ground glass, the finished print previsioned completely in every detail of texture, movement, proportion, before exposure - the shutter's release automatically and finally fixes my conception, allowing no after manipulation - the ultimate end, the print, is but a duplication of all that I saw and felt through my camera.” IdeasEndsFormFeltSawsFocusMovementPhotographyDiscoveryUltimateCamerasFinalsPhotographerGlassesDetailsFinishedReleaseProportionManipulationPrintAllowingConceptionLensesExposurePresentationTextureShuttersPreconceived IdeasRediscoveryDuplication Book:Edward Weston on photography Source: Edward Weston on photography
“I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise.” KnowsMadeFeltSawsSubjectsPhotographyClaimsPhotographerPhotograph Author:David Hurn
“The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the speaker was Emrys Jones. He projected the picture upside down. Deliberately, to disregard the subject matter to reveal the composition. It's a lesson I've never forgotten.” FirstsMatterSawsSubjectsLessonsPhotographyCamerasForgottenClubsSpeakersCompositionLecturesSubject MatterUpside DownDisregard Author:Philip Jones Griffiths
“A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.” ArtSpaceCreativitySawsPiecesPhotographyIllusionCamerasPhotographDescriptionTime And SpaceLiteral Author:Garry Winogrand