“Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words, placed within a special context, can soar above the intellect and touch subtle reality in a unique way.” WayDifferentRealitySpecialPhotographyUniqueEverydayPhotographerIntellectFamiliarSubtleMakersSoarCommunicatorsBest Poetry Book:Paul Caponigro Source: Paul Caponigro
“One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the vital click shows the anatomy bare. In this, the photographer is invisible but essential. A computer releasing the shutter would always miss the special moment that the human sensibility can register. For this work, the photographer's instinct is his aid, his personality a hindrance.” HumansMomentsShowsRealityViewsSpecialMissingPersonalityEssentialsComputerPhotographyInstinctPhotographerAidsInvisibleCapturePantsSensibilityClicksRegisterAnatomyHindranceShuttersSpecial MomentsZen Like Author:Peter Brook
“The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.” ArtProblemEyeFilmCasesSpecialPaintingPridePhotographyBasesCamerasVideoMediumsDominantExtensionsNineteenVerdictWitheredPictorialExemption Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“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.” NeedsSelfBitsProcessWalksSpecialPhotographyDiscoveryDrivingDestructiveDigitalNeighborhoodStoppingSelf DestructiveTime Of NeedSpedDigital Photography Author:Mona Kuhn
“I think that photography has allowed me to have a voice. I used to stutter, and once I overcame that struggle, it felt good to tell people they were beautiful and special.” PeopleThinkingBeautifulUsedFeltVoiceStruggleSpecialPhotography Author:Jamel Shabazz
“For 'Star Wars' I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy I was looking for. I did it with motion-control photography.” GivingKindIdeasWarWholeEnergyStarsSpecialEffectsPhotographyNew IdeasSpecial EffectsKinetic Energy Author:George Lucas
“By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place at the right time. Go into it as young as possible. Bring all the asset you have and play to win.” PlayYoungWinningFateSpecialPhotographyPhotographerAssetsRight TimeRight PlaceGraciousnessPlay To Win Author:Margaret Bourke-White
“"You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene before, but never like that." It is the kind of photography that relies for its strengths not on special equipment or effects but on the intensity of the photographer's seeing. It is the kind of photography in which the raw materials-light, space, and shape-are arranged in a meaningful and even universal way that gives grace to ordinary objects."” IfsKnowsWayGivingKindLightSpaceTakenGraceSeeingSpecialEffectsObjectsMaterialsSceneShapesPhotographyOrdinaryUniversalPhotographerPhotographMeaningfulRelyIntensityEquipmentRaw Materials Author:Sam Abell
“As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.” MomentsShowsPleasureSpecialProducePhotographyCamerasPhotographerPhotographSimplicitySomething SpecialCamera And PhotographyCapturing A Moment Photography Author:Sam Abell