“Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art.” PeopleMeanArtRealMatterArtistTermTaughtEssentialsPhotographyReally MeanMeaning Of Art Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes
“Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.” KnowsWayTaughtFitPhotographyNarrativeNeat Author:Richard Misrach
“I am suspicious and disillusioned about the uses and misuses of photography in the art world, the press, and the world of entertainment. And to make things more complicated, I don't think that the general public is well educated regarding images. Generally we are taught how to read, but we are not taught how to look.” ThinkingWorldWellsLooksArtUseTaughtPhotographyPressesEntertainmentComplicatedEducatedSuspiciousArt WorldMisuseGeneral PublicDisillusionedWell Educated Author:Alfredo Jaar
“In the last workshop I taught, a woman flew in from Thailand. She's a medical doctor in Bangkok. I asked her in her one-on-one session where she wanted photography to be in her life.Did she want a second career? Was it about earning money? Or was it art? And she said "None of those. I want photography to be serious in my life." It would be like someone wanting music, like piano playing, to be a richer, deeper, and maybe even harder experience.” WantArtSaidWould BeWantedLastsCareersTaughtSeriousPhotographyDoctorsHarderDeeperMedicalPianoEarningSessionFlewWorkshopsOne On OneThailandEarning MoneyPiano PlayingBangkokMedical Doctor Author:Sam Abell
“I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.” KnowsYearsLittlesArtSchoolInterestFourTaughtCollegePhotographyUniversityConvincedCaliforniaSouthernFour YearsFilmmakingArt SchoolAnthropologistsIllustratorsSouthern California Author:George Lucas
“The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation.” RealCountryMightMotherValuesFatherBoysFailingPossibilityTaughtReturnPhotographyPhotographUniformsConsolationDepartureReal Value Author:Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.