“Photography is a source of raw materials as I believe the camera is never perfect and will never be able to express in full what I see and feel.” FeelsBelieveAbleI BelievePerfectMaterialsSourcePhotographyCamerasRaw Materials Author:Nikolay Semyonov
“I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones, who have drawn too much inspiration from photography and who, over time, have a problem forming their own identity.” BelieveImportantSometimesProblemInspirationI BelieveToo MuchIdentitySourcePhotographyPhotographerVery Good Author:Peter Lindbergh
“There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.” WorldKindTwoLife IsSourcePhotographyOrdinaryPhotographerStudiosFormerLatterThings In LifeNourishment Author:Ernst Haas
“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
“When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students and I try to expand the terminology we use to talk about poetry as well as expand our notion of what makes a poem - we read source texts on architecture, dance, photography, film and the graphic novel.” TryingWellsUseFilmClassTeachNovelStudentsSourcePhotographyNotionArchitectureGraduatesTopicsGraphicGraphic NovelsTerminologySeminars Author:Matthea Harvey