“The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective ways of organizing and using the material. For content and form are interrelated. The problems presented by content and form must be so developed that the result is fundimentally [sic] true to the realities of life as we know it. The chief problem is to find a form that adequately represents the reality.” KnowsWorldWayRealProblemRealityFormResultsRecordsMaterialsAimCamerasStrivePhotographerChiefsReality Of LifeReal WorldDocumentariesTruthfulness Author:Paul Strand
“... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.” CareDesireCausesResultsEffortAnxietyPressurePhotographerDiligenceSuspendedDegenerates Author:Paul Caponigro
“Work incessantly, cultivate discrimination, gather freedom from your own hard-earned results. Disregard successes but go back for help in an immediate problem. The possibility of discovery is everywhere. Freedom from your own work allows for intuition that draws from all your experience and perception but goes beyond it.” HardHelpingProblemResultsPossibilityPerceptionDrawsDiscoveryPhotographerIntuitionDiscriminationDisregardIncessantly Book:Paul Caponigro Source: Paul Caponigro
“(1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees and the better his chance of getting good results. (2) Even slight changes in subject approach can make significant differences in the effect of the picture.” DifferencesChanceResultsSubjectsEffectsApproachCamerasPhotographerSignificant Author:Andreas Feininger
“Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play.” IfsPlayChanceResultsPhotographyPhotographerPhotographPoetic Author:Frederick Sommer
“It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming.” StillsAgeArtistResultsBehindsWatchesCamerasPhotographerExcitedDarkroom Author:John Sexton