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“How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.”

World Way Trying Kind Matter Alive Subjects This World Photography Extraordinary Subject Matter

Author:Keith Carter

“I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh and new. It opens this doorway. I really admire people who can do that with photography.”

People Matter Can Do Subjects Photography Photographer Admire Subject Matter Doorways Ordinariness

Author:Andy Summers

“The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you're a moron, you're going to get a really strong photograph.”

People Matter Strong Subjects Photography Photograph Surround Subject Matter Moron

Author:Andy Summers

“Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.”

Matter Subjects Objects Photography Tyranny Domination Subject Matter

Author:Joan Fontcuberta

“The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.”

Matter Problem Subjects Media Photography Visible Portraits Subject Matter

Author:Thomas Struth

“The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.”

Important Matter Subjects Photography Photographer Subject Matter

Author:Gordon Parks

“Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.”

Matter Reason Subjects Photography Photographer Photograph Unusual Corny Commonplace Subject Matter

Book:Edward Weston: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

Source: Edward Weston: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

“Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.”

Matter Photography Photographer Photograph Indifference Subject Matter Great Photography

Author:Robert Frank

“I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's nothing much interesting to tell about me; what's interesting is the person I'm photographing, and that's what I try to show. [...] I think each photographer has a point of view and a way of looking at the world... that has to do with your subject matter and how you choose to present it. What's interesting is letting people tell you about themselves in the picture.”

People Thinking World Way Trying Persons Matter Shows Interesting Views Subjects Photography Photographer Photograph Point Of View You Choose Subject Matter

Author:Mary Ellen Mark

“When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.”

Matter Vision Subjects Fit Photography Photographer Patterns Following Composition Repetition Cliche Subject Matter Tedious Freshness Pictorial Following Rules

Book:Edward Weston on photography

Source: Edward Weston on photography

“The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the speaker was Emrys Jones. He projected the picture upside down. Deliberately, to disregard the subject matter to reveal the composition. It's a lesson I've never forgotten.”

Firsts Matter Saws Subjects Lessons Photography Cameras Forgotten Clubs Speakers Composition Lectures Subject Matter Upside Down Disregard

Author:Philip Jones Griffiths

“To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.”

Way Trying Mean Matter Form Subjects Color Photography Oneself New Ways Subject Matter Absorption

Author:Cole Weston

“What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.”

“In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make the pictures.”

Thinking Doe Matter Practice Issues Subjects Photography Concern Philosophical Photographer Photograph Subject Matter

Author:John Szarkowski