“Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.” PeopleWatchesAudiencePhotographyCatPredatory Author:Dorothea Lange
“One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction.” WatchesSubjectsStagePhotographyPhotographerCommandImpulseVisibleStage Directions Book:The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film Source: The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film
“These days it seems that physical truth can easily be rearranged, rethought, or re-created outright. Any image can be made pristine, all the warts can be removed. But returning to the source of a thing - the real source - means the photographer has to watch, dig, listen for voices, sniff the smells, and have many doubts. My life in photography has been lived as a skeptic.” MeanHas BeensMadeRealSeemsVoiceWatchesDoubtSourcePhotographyPhotographerSmellThese DaysSkepticPristineWarts Author:Jerome Liebling
“[Photography] ties back into this feeling of wanting to watch things fall and the moment before they break. Fireworks are that way for me - this lovely thing that blows up and is gone. It all goes back to this desire to record things before they disappear - the original reason we take pictures, right?” WayReasonMomentsFeelingsDesireFallWatchesBreakGoneRecordsPhotographyOriginalsBlowDisappearLovelyTiesFireworksLovely Things Author:Laurel Nakadate
“The most striking feature of the new is the sheer mass. Photography was previously a mass phenomenon, but now, quantity is doubtless the outstanding quality. For a long time photos have been taken frequently and everywhere, but now photos are taken permanently and everywhere,... What is new is that we can watch them practically in real time.” LongHas BeensRealQualityWatchesTakenPhotographyMassLong TimeFeaturesPhenomenonQuantitySheerOutstanding Author:Joachim Schmid
“I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.” KnowsTryingDoeWaitingWalksSecretKnownWatchesKnow HowStreetsWalkingApproachPhotographyPhotographerCornersHeatUnexpectedAround The Corner Author:Alex Webb
“This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in the medium. And it's true. If you watch a photographer of merit working an event he/she does not look like an amateur.” IfsLooksDoeIdeasActionWatchesEventsPhotographyPhotographerMediumsMeritSeconds Author:David Hurn