“The desert ... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the successes ... both noble and foolish, are readily apparent in the desert. Symbols and relationships seem to arise that stand for the human condition itself.” MenHumansMaySeemsStruggleEnvironmentConditionsPhotographyNobleFoolishAriseSymbolsDesertHuman ConditionBackdrop Book:Desert Cantos Source: Desert Cantos
“Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent... the camera.” MenProblemTechnologyStruggleExamplePhotographyMachinesOvercomingCamerasPhotographerDependentParadoxicalMechanization Author:Ernst Haas
“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
“I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on the wall, often presented in a tedious white matt frame.” FactsWhiteStrugglePiecesWallPaperPhotographySilentTedious Author:Michael Light
“Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.” MeanStrugglePhotographyPropagandaRevolutionaryIndispensableOutstanding Author:Willi Munzenberg
“If I have caught myself struggling to remember, it was, if not a pretense, at least premature, in that I only ever used photography for my own pleasure - even if I then bewailed the vanished pleasure which my pictures brought back to me.” IfsRememberUsedMy OwnPleasureStrugglePhotographyCaughtPretensePremature Author:Jeanloup Sieff
“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
“The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it is the place where images and words find and lose their conscience, their aesthetic and ethical identity.” RealityValuesLanguageLosesStruggleIdentityPhotographyConscienceRelationContemporaryEthicalAestheticPrincipalSiteRepresentation Author:William J. Mitchell
“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
“Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.” ArtStrugglePhotography Author:Pieter Hugo
“I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its fight... I am not fighting to make a 'name' for myself. Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. It's a world's fight... All that's born of spirit seems mad in these days of materialism run riot.” WorldYearsFeelingsSeemsRunningSpiritFightingPassionNamesBornStruggleGreaterPhotographyMadThese DaysFortyMaterialismMy PassionRiot Author:Alfred Stieglitz