“Composition in photography is almost as varied as composition in music or words -- melodic or atonal, safe or daring -- and can enhance subject, theme, and style. Every photograph you take involves you in some compositional decision, even if this is simply where to set up the camera or when to press the button.” IfsDecisionSubjectsStyleSafePhotographyCamerasPressesPhotographThemeDaringCompositionButtons Book:Basic Photography Source: Basic Photography
“As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.” WantedPhotographyWoundsThemeSpectators Author:Roland Barthes
“I believe that the medium of photography prevails entirely as an act of faith in the souls of those who love and practice it. And so every photograph becomes another subtle variation on the theme of the medium itself.” BelieveSoulI BelievePracticePhotographyPhotographMediumsThemeSubtleVariation Author:Ralph Gibson
“Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer and the use he makes of his theme. When photography fails... it is usually because a false separation has been imposed on form and content.” DoeHas BeensFactsUseFormPurposeFailingPhotographyCamerasPhotographerSeparationThemeIsolatedEntityAestheticsInseparable Author:Sid Grossman
“Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.” LifeHateSubjectsPhotographyPicksPhotographerPhotographThemeWorking ItLife And LoveExhaustionPhotography By Photographers Author:Dorothea Lange
“I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity. Even odder: it was before Photography that men had the most to say about the vision of the double. Heautoscopy was compared with an hallucinosis; for centuries this was a great mythic theme.” MenWantConsciousnessVisionCenturyIdentityPhotographyPhotographThemeCunningDissociationAdvent Author:Roland Barthes