“Most importantly, postmodernism comes down on the side of photography and power, not photography as power. As a consequence, photography continues to be conceived as an inconsequential vehicle or passage for real powers that always originate elsewhere.” RealSidesPhotographyConsequencePassagesVehicleElsewherePostmodernismReal PowerInconsequential Author:Geoffrey Batchen
“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.” PeopleSelfSidesCuttingWalkingPhotographyPhotographCompositionPortraitsSelf Portrait Author:William Klein
“Photography - the new, rapid, concrete reflector of the world - should surely undertake to show the world from all vantage points, and to develop people's capacity to see from all sides. (1928)” PeopleWorldShouldShowsSidesPhotographyCapacityConcreteRapidsVantage Point Author:Alexander Rodchenko
“We struggle against easel painting not because it is an aesthetic form of painting, but because it is not modern, for it does not succeed in bringing out the technical side, it is a redundant, exclusive art, and cannot be of any use to the masses. Hence we are struggling not against painting but against photography carried out as if it were an etching, a drawing, a picture in sepia or watercolor.” IfsDoeArtUseFormSidesStruggleModernPaintingSucceedPhotographyMassDrawingAestheticExclusiveRedundantWatercolorsEtching Author:Alexander Rodchenko
“I think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances can change people's lives.” PeopleThinkingHumansWarCertainSidesCircumstancesPhotography Author:Jamel Shabazz
“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
“A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.” InspirationalMadeSidesPhotographyCamerasPhotographerPhotographPortraitsPhotography By PhotographersInspirational PhotographyPhoto ShootsGreat PhotographyCamera And Photography Author:Edward Steichen
“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.” ThinkingKnowsShouldStillsProblemSidesPhotographyCamerasThese DaysCurvesSteepLearning Curve Author:Graeme Le Saux
“I don't really remember the day when I stood behind my camera with Henry Kissinger on the other side. I am sure he doesn't remember it either. But this photograph is here now to prove that no amount of kindness on my part could make this photograph mean exactly what he.. or even I.. wanted it to mean. It's a reminder of the wonder and terror that is a photograph.” MeanWantedRememberSidesBehindsWonderKindnessAmountProvePhotographyCamerasPhotographTerrorRemindersKissingerHenry Kissinger Author:Richard Avedon
“One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it...If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.” IfsWorldLooksRealFilmFightingNextSidesMistakeVisionForeverBearsLimitsEqualPhotographyPhotographerPhotographVainReal WorldNext TimeResemblanceMinusBiggest MistakeFighting On Author:Galen Rowell