“Photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.” WarPhotographyOppositesPhotographer Author:James Nachtwey
“With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!” TwoWarTogetherFilmBitsPaintingPhotographyShotsPhotographerPhotographIraqNewspapersExpertsChemicalsEditingIraq WarCrumbling Author:David Hockney
“I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to overcome my loneliness and isolation.” WorldChildrenWarBornLonelinessPhotographyOvercomingTinyWar Of The WorldsIsolationWorld War IiWorld War IMassachusetts Book:William Wegman: Funney/strange Source: William Wegman: Funney/strange
“I want to record history through the destiny of individuals who often belong to the least wealthy classes. I do not want to show war in general, nor history with a capital H, but rather the tragedy of a single man, of a family.” MenWantWarShowsIndividualClassDestinyRecordsPhotographyTragedyWealthySingle Man Author:James Nachtwey
“Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film.” KnowsWarFilmHorrorPhotographyRangeExposedHorror Of WarKodakPhotojournalists Author:James Nachtwey
“The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?” WarEndsAbleDemandPhotographyPhilosopherStatesmen Author:James Nachtwey
“I never felt in competition with anybody in war photography. You're lucky to get your ass in and out again. It's as simple as that. It's the easiest photography in the world to shoot somebody who's been shot up. It doesn't take a genius. That's easy. The only thing you need to know is your photography. Get in and if you're lucky get out. And get as close as you can get.” IfsKnowsWorldNeedsWarFeltEasySimpleGeniusLuckyPhotographyShotsCompetitionAss Author:David Douglas Duncan
“I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can't say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world. I had no good moral reasons: I just loved adventure, I loved the poetry of war, the poetry of chaos, and I found that there was a kind of grace in weaving between the bullets.” WorldKindI CanWarReasonWantedFoundMoralGraceAdventureBearsPhotographyTwentiesChaosWitnessChanging The WorldBulletsWeavingGood Moral Author:Luc Delahaye
“...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war, by incidents of genocide, by hunger. A more realistic assessment of photography's value is to point out that it is illustrative of what's going on, that it provides a record of history, that photographs can prompt dialogue.” IfsBelieveWarValuesRecordsPhotographyPhotographerPhotographHungerDialogueRealisticGenocideIncidentsAssessmentPretentiousPrompts Author:Eugene Richards
“I think what it was with the war photography was the concerned eye, the desire to document these situations to show the world the horrors of war. It inspired me to document prostitution; inspired me to document homelessness in America. We are the richest country in the world, yet we have people suffering, so it helped me to look at things in that manner.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksWarCountryShowsEyeAmericaDesireSufferingSituationHorrorPhotographyConcernedInspiredDocumentsHomelessnessProstitutionHorror Of War Author:Jamel Shabazz
“I think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances can change people's lives.” PeopleThinkingHumansWarCertainSidesCircumstancesPhotography Author:Jamel Shabazz
“I'm shooting a gangbanger, but as a dignified man. That's pretty much what war photography did: seeing images of soldiers in a dignified way. They might have been killers in Vietnam, but I'm seeing another side of them, and looking at images of the the American soldiers, also the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong - I never saw an enemy.” MenWayHas BeensWarMightSidesEnemySawsSeeingPhotographySoldierShootingVietnamKillersMight Have BeenVietnameseAmerican SoldierViet Cong Author:Jamel Shabazz
“After the war, photography came alive, in part because everybody started to use the 35mm camera, and worked on the street instead of in a studio, and that made an enormous difference in not only how photographs looked, but what they were about.” MadeWarUseDifferencesAliveStreetsPhotographyCamerasPhotographStudiosEnormous Author:Robert Benton
“There was as big a reaction after the revelations about Assad's chemical weapons. Nevertheless, that photograph did strike a singular chord. Which leads us to a larger fact: we don't understand why certain photographs create such an upheaval in one's soul. You look at them and go, "Oh my gosh." And that doesn't happen with television. It's unique to photography. Photographs are unique in that they are a frame abstracted out of reality, out of, in this case, a civil war. A single event can carry so much weight. And that is extraordinary.” WarSoulRealityPhotographyUniqueExtraordinaryPhotographCivil WarRevelationsOh My Gosh Author:Stuart Franklin
“Newspaper photographs nowadays are highly tautologous. You'll have an article about, say, stopping the war. And the photograph that will be used is literally a poster that reads "Stop The War." Or you'll have a story about a cash crisis in Barcelona, and the only picture you'll see is an ATM in Barcelona. The problem is actually systemic. On the one hand, you'll have a picture of a soda can to "illustrate" an article about the dangers of sugary drinks. On the other hand, anything that's reasonable in documentary photography is snapped up by the art world and we never see it.” WorldArtWarProblemDangerDrinkPhotographyCrisisPhotographPosters Author:Stuart Franklin
“For 'Star Wars' I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy I was looking for. I did it with motion-control photography.” GivingKindIdeasWarWholeEnergyStarsSpecialEffectsPhotographyNew IdeasSpecial EffectsKinetic Energy Author:George Lucas
“I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.” WarEndsPhotographyPhotographerUnemployedTill The End Author:Robert Capa
“I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a tragedy. Because there is a tragic element to photographing, in this case not war, but the collapse. It was just destruction.” WarWould BeBlackWhiteCasesColorElementsPhotographyDestructionTragedyPhotographerPhotographTragicCollapseBlack And White Author:Joel Meyerowitz
“One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.” WarEnoughOne ThingPhotographyMy FamilyPhotographer Author:Cornell Capa
“When you're photographing anything to do with war and conflict you're photographing something impossible. Everything you do is just clumsy and stupid and half witted. Because it is impossible to portray the full width and breadth of everything that you are up against.” WarHalfImpossibleStupidConflictPhotographyClumsyBreadthWidth Author:Simon Norfolk