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“Not only do we end up with a vivid, surprising and soulful sense of one artist and his work, but Leigh also offers us a commanding view of a city, London, and country at the dawn of the modern age and of a man being overawed and overtaken by new technologies such as photography and the railways. As ever with Leigh, 'Mr Turner' addresses the big questions with small moments. It's an extraordinary film, all at once strange, entertaining, thoughtful and exciting.”

“Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts.”

Art Actors Process Strange Painting Photography Connected Architecture Painter Filmmaking

Author:Wim Wenders

“Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity.”

Way Cities Novel Streets Strange Photography Draws Ancient Architecture Gates Intensity Squares Illustration Pristine Obviousness

Author:Louis Aragon

“...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?”

Strange Photography Mediums Why Not Take Me Basics

Book:A camera in a room: photographs

Source: A camera in a room: photographs

“And I was very successful at baby photography... Strange isn't it? Because some of my portraits of babies were - I used dramatic lighting, shadow lighting, and I didn't use flash. We didn't have flash in those days, we just had floodlights, and I was photographing babies as I would an object - an inanimate object, for that matter.”

Matter Use Used Successful Objects Strange Baby Photography Shadow Dramatic Flash Portraits Lighting Inanimate Objects

Author:Julius Shulman

“I got to work with Robert DeNiro once and it was a strange experience. Gwyneth Paltrow and I were doing Great Expectations movie together and we were complaining about what a mediocre film experience it was. DeNiro showed up on set and all of a sudden the director got better, the director of photography got better - everybody got more interested and excited. DeNiro isn't waiting for other people to create the environment that he wants, he brings it along with him.”

People Together Film Waiting Environment Strange Photography Expectations Excited Complaining Mediocre Great Expectations

Author:Ethan Hawke

“The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.”

Purpose Strange Travel Photography Photograph Encounters Reverse Funny Travel Unfamiliar Unfamiliar Territory

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.”

Inspirational Light Strange Materials Photography Invention Primaries Raw Materials Inspirational Photography Inspiring Photography Art Photography Film Photography Photography And Film Photography And Light

Book:Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography

Source: Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography

“It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.”

People World Firsts Looks Children Country Jobs Strange Photography First Time Photographer Traveler

Book:Camera in London

Source: Camera in London

“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

“A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it.”

Thinking Wells Looks Littles Made Reason Beautiful Interest Strange Photography Being True Copies Incomplete Vases

Book:Pictures under discussion

Source: Pictures under discussion