“I was struggling against the flypaper of other arts harnessing film to their own usages, which means essentially as a recording device or within the long historical trap of picture - by which I mean a collection of nameable shapes within a frame. I don't even think still photography, with few exceptions, has made any significant attempt to free itself from that.” ThinkingMeanLongArtMadeStillsFilmStruggleShapesPhotographyHistoricalSignificantCollectionsExceptionDevicesTrapsUsage Author:Stan Brakhage
“Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.” FactsPurposePhotographySignificantDescriptionAestheticPrecise Author:John Szarkowski
“I was asked by a student what my most significant accomplishment was at National Geographic, after thirty years, and I said that my career came to an appropriate close, and I still loved photography. Not everybody who spends their career at anything ends up fascinated and involved with it.” YearsSaidStillsEndsCareersStudentsInvolvedPhotographySignificantAccomplishmentThirtyAppropriateFascinatedThirty YearsNational Geographic Author:Sam Abell
“Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.” YearsPhotographyPhotographerPhotographSignificantTwelveCropsPhotography By PhotographersInspirational PhotographyGreat PhotographyStreet PhotographyLandscape PhotographyDigital PhotographyFilm PhotographyPhotography And FilmGood PhotographyAmerican Landscape Author:Ansel Adams
“As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper.” MayLittlesMomentsOpportunityPerfectEssentialsPhotographyTrainingPhotographerDeeperFocusedSignificantCaptureHighlightsPerfect Moments Book:Portrait of Myself Source: Portrait of Myself
“Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and lines. Light I acknowledge as the energy upon which all life on this planet depends.” LightInspirationEnergyLinesPlanetsDependsEssentialsPhotographyModelsPaintPhotographerSignificantAcknowledgeBrushesCurvesCaressSuperlatives Author:Ruth Bernhard
“We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of the day. We go forward, despite the uncertainty. Because this is an act of love and passion, which defies reason and prudence.” EndsReasonPassionPhotographyPhotographerSignificantDespiteUncertaintyThe End Of The DayPrudenceActs Of LoveLove And Passion Author:Joe McNally
“Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term-selectivity.” ShouldFirstsTermSimpleQualityPaintingExercisePhotographyPhotographerPhotographTechniqueSignificantStatementsPrintSheerDocumentsSymphonyPretty Picture Author:Berenice Abbott