Best photography & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In photography we must learn to seek, not the 'picture,' not the aesthetic of tradition, but the ideal instrument of expression, the self-sufficient vehicle for education.”

Self Expression Photography Ideals Tradition Instruments Sufficient Aesthetic Vehicle Self Sufficient

Book:Moholy-Nagy, photographs and photograms

Source: Moholy-Nagy, photographs and photograms

“Photography - the supreme form of travel, of tourism - is the principal modern means for enlarging the world. As a branch of art, photography's enterprise of world enlargement tends to specialize in the subjects felt to be challenging, transgressive. A photograph may be telling us: this too exists. And that. And that. (And it is all 'human.') But what are we to do with this knowledge - if indeed it is knowledge, about, say, the self, about abnormality, about ostracized or clandestine worlds?”

“Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to one who does a self-portrait...self-portraits deny not only photography itself but the 20th century as an era as well...an inevitable phenomenon at the end of the 20th century.”

Wells Doe Ends Self Interest Century Objects Photography Photograph Deny Eras Inevitable Phenomenon Portraits 20th Century Self Portrait Self Portrait Photography

Author:Yasumasa Morimura

“Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of a self-portrait. I think it's impossible for a photographer who is working honestly to keep this from happening.”

Ifs Thinking Made Self Bits Impossible Fronts Photography Happenings Cameras Photographer Photograph Honestly Made It Portraits Self Portrait

Author:John Sexton

“The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect.”

“If you are interested in photography because you love it and are obsessed with it, you must be self-motivated, a perfectionist, and relentless.”

Ifs Self Photography Obsessed Motivated Relentless Perfectionist Self Motivated

Author:Mary Ellen Mark

“By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between the original and the copy. [Photography calls] into question the whole concept of the uniqueness of the art object, the originality of the author, the coherence of the oeuvre within which it was made, and the individuality of so-called self-expression.”

“There is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world.”

World Self Beautiful Photography Something Beautiful Reunited

Author:Luc Delahaye

“To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression.”

Self Records Expression Photography Window Mirrors Self Expression

Author:Eikoh Hosoe

“I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite people to make their self-portraits. I see myself as their walking photo booth.”

People Self Sides Cutting Walking Photography Photograph Composition Portraits Self Portrait

Author:William Klein

“Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.”

Needs Self Bits Process Walks Special Photography Discovery Driving Destructive Digital Neighborhood Stopping Self Destructive Time Of Need Sped Digital Photography

Author:Mona Kuhn

“... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated - as though it had created itself.”

Made Self Film Photography Mark Cameras Photograph Video Makers Clicks Shutters

Author:Abigail Solomon-Godeau

“The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.”

Self Use Reality Social Community Issues Photography

Author:Susan Sontag

“I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.”

Looks Self Reason Interest Born Photography Photograph Motive Suspects Surroundings Self Interest Street Photography Mirror Mirror On The Wall

Book:Self Portrait

Source: Self Portrait

“I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.”

World Self Creative Expression Photography Photographer Excitement Self Expression

Author:Ansel Adams

“When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).”

World Want Self Action Order Conditions Events Objects Photography Photographer Photograph Permanent Disorder Self Contained

Book:Aaron Siskind, photographer

Source: Aaron Siskind, photographer

“Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own understanding. That's where self-doubt and risk taking are likely to occur. It's when you trust what's happening at a non-intellectual non-conscious level that you can produce work that later resonates, often in a way that you can't articulate a response to.”

Thinking Way Wells Self Moving Understanding Levels Doubt Risk Produce Photography Intellectual Happenings Conscious Response Photographer Fringe Risk-taking Self-doubt

Author:Jerry Uelsmann

“And young people who are learning digital skills discover that the real challenge is coming up with an image that resonates, first of all, with your self and hopefully, with an audience. They can learn all these new techniques and think that they're easier to use, but creating great images isn't about the tools.”

People Thinking Firsts Real Self Use Young Challenges Audience Easier Skills Creating Photography Tools Technique Hopefully Digital

Author:Jerry Uelsmann

“"Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion, instead of with the saucy swagger of self-dubbed "artists"."”

Self Spirit Lying Artist Effort Honest Approach Photography Cameras Photographer Mediums Communion Inquiry Swagger

Book:The daybooks of Edward Weston

Source: The daybooks of Edward Weston

“To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.”

People World Wells Self Reality Spiritual Difficult Realizing Awareness Source Photography Reflection Direct Majority Photograph Factual Spiritual Awareness

Author:Ansel Adams

“To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye and yet, the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory.”

Wells Self Eye Lying Memories Records Expression Photography Window Mirrors Cameras Photographer Visible Unseen Self Expression

Author:Eikoh Hosoe

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