“My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.” WayUsePhotographyTraditionalMediums Author:Andres Serrano
“The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the flaws everywhere, in any practice of photography. Traditional genres in particular-journalism, documentary studies, and fine-art photography-have become shells, or forms emptied of meaning.” YearsHas BeensArtFormPracticeStudyImpossibleParticularTheoryFinePhotographyTraditionalJournalismGenreFlawsShellsRepresentationDocumentariesFine ArtsPostmodernArt Photography Author:Richard Misrach
“In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives, deeply compelling.” FoundPhotographyDiscoveryTraditionalNarrativeSpiteTrendsCaptureCompelling Author:Richard Misrach
“I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the nature of how we live through photography, and how you can twist an angle to create a different perception of a person.” WayPersonsDifferentPerceptionCreatingPhotographyTraditionalAngleCartoonTwistsCaricaturesSatiricalDifferent Perceptions Author:Alison Jackson
“The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference was a basic one. Paintings were made - constructed from a storehouse of traditional schemes and skills and attitudes - but photographs, as the man on the street put, were taken.” MenMadeProcessDifferencesAttitudeTakenStreetsHe ManPaintingSkillsPhotographyPhotographInventionTraditionalSchemesSelectionSynthesis Author:John Szarkowski
“I don't care about traditional photography. I want more control.” WantCarePhotographyDon't CareTraditionalI Don't Care Author:Loretta Lux
“Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it is also clear that photography is too multiple, too useful to other discourses, ever to be wholly contained within traditional definitions of art.” ArtSeemsClearEnvironmentPhotographyDefinitionsInventionTraditionalVisualsMultipleDiscourseSaturatedVisual Images Book:On the Museum's Ruins Source: On the Museum's Ruins
“... while in theory digital technology entails the flawless replication of data, its actual use in contemporary society is characterized by the loss of data, degradation, and noise; the noise which is even stronger than that of traditional photography.” UseLossTechnologyTheoryPhotographyStrongerContemporaryNoiseTraditionalDataDigitalDegradationFlawlessDigital TechnologyContemporary SocietyReplication Author:Lev Manovich
“Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.” LittlesPaintingPhotographyTraditional Author:St. Lucia