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“The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is a hunt for new states of things, situations never seen before, for the improbable, for information.”

States Situation Information Photography Function Cameras Photographer Hunts Improbable Indivisible

Book:Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography

“I never took it upon myself to change the world. And those contemporaries of mine who were going around falling for the idea that they were going to bring down the United States government and make a new world were just asses to me.”

World Ideas States Government Fall United United States Mines Photography Photographer Ass Changing The World New World State Government United States Government

Book:Of time & place: Walker Evans and William Christenberry

Source: Of time & place: Walker Evans and William Christenberry

“I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.”

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Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit.”

World Heart States Spirit Born Space Vision Photography Substance Gentle Offering

Author:Paul Caponigro

“... a fact about photography: we can look at people's faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states - for a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.”

People Firsts Looks May States Facts Lasts Faces Sleep Emotional Photography Photograph Extremes Intimacy Intensity Reserves

Author:Adam Gopnik

“In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped, or resolved in a realm of quiet, well in advance of, or between, the actual clicking of shutters and the sloshing of films and papers in chemical solutions. I work to attain a state of heart, a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of the spirit.”

World Years Wells Heart States Film Spirit Born Space Vision Quiet Paper Photography Solutions Substance Gentle Realms Chemicals Offering I Have Learned Papers Shutters

Author:Paul Caponigro

“[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If I only did what I had in mind, there would be no emotion. It would be like keeping one's eyes shut rather than open, like theorizing rather than seeing.”

Ifs Mind States Would Be Eye Emotion Grace Seeing Photography Surprise Appearance Surprise Me Foreseen

Author:Sarah Moon

“In black and white you suggest, in color you state.”

States Black White Color Photography Photographer Black And White Absolute Certainty Color Photography Monochromatic

Book:Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs

Source: Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs

“One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty... absolute certainty.”

“Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.”

Mind States Inspiration Action Waiting Creative Photography Photographer Reaching State Of Mind

Author:Minor White

“Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.”

Made States Today Force Strange Photography Series Familiar Flight Sunday Unnatural Unfamiliar Grotesque

Author:Dorothea Lange