“It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is even perhaps the disappearance of reality that triggered this technical form. Reality found a way to mutate into an image.” WayRealityAgeFormFoundPhotographySurpriseDisappearMediumsTechnologicalDisappearance Author:Jean Baudrillard
“I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.” YearsBelieveKindArtistFoundPhotographySurprisePhotographerVariousAll KindsDarkroom Author:John Sexton
“Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!” ProvePhotographySurpriseUnexpectedFacultyLensesSurrealism Author:Salvador Dali
“My first reaction at the very idea of this interview was to refuse to talk about photography. Why dissect and comment a process that is essentially a spontaneous reaction to a surprise?” FirstsIdeasProcessPhotographySurpriseRefuseReactionsInterviewsCommentSpontaneous Author:Marc Riboud
“[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.” IfsMindStatesWould BeEyeEmotionGraceSeeingPhotographySurpriseAppearanceSurprise MeForeseen Author:Sarah Moon
“In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.” ValuesOrderPeriodsPhotographySurprisePhotographFamiliarSophisticatedInitialsNotableDecreeReversal Author:Roland Barthes
“Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.” RealityPleasureWonderFrontsPhotographyCamerasSurprisePhotographerComplexityUnnecessary Author:David Hurn
“If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.” IfsWayGamesElementsPhotographySurprisePhotographerCaptureElement Of SurpriseAhead Of The Game Author:Jay Maisel
“When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture but, instead, that it stimulates my thinking and intrigues me.” ThinkingMeanQualityPhotographySurpriseAppealsLoudShockVulgarIntrigue Author:Alexey Brodovitch
“Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the picture or through the human interest of the situation photographed or by calling our attention to some commonplace but fascinating thing we have never noticed before or it can be achieved by looking at an everyday thing in a new interesting way.” WayHumansMayCertainInterestInterestingAttentionQualitySituationCallingElementsPhotographySurpriseEverydayFascinatingCommonplaceInteresting WaysEveryday ThingsNew Interesting Author:Alexey Brodovitch
“It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do this his pictures will command attention and have surprise quality.” IfsWayCan DoAttentionQualityResponsibilityPhotographySurprisePhotographerCommand Author:Alexey Brodovitch
“It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.” PeopleEmotionQualityVisionPhotographySurprisePhotographUnexpectedPersonal Vision Author:Alexey Brodovitch