“Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through layers of manipulation, abstraction, and intervention. But now, it is very much on the surface. I like this honesty about its dishonesty. Every photograph has many truths and none. Photographs are ambiguous, no matter how seemingly scientific they appear to be. They are always subject to an uncontrollable context. This is a tired statement, but worth repeating.” PeopleMatterRealitySubjectsHonestyBecomingPhotographyTiredPhotographSurfaceStatementsFamiliarLimitationVulnerabilityManipulationLayersDocumentariesAbstractionInterventionDishonestyBecoming MoreAmbiguousUncontrollableDocumentary Photography Author:Taryn Simon
“I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life changing difference. True or true? Yes or yes? I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about. When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it. In imagination, there's no limitation. Don't think it, ink it.” PeopleThinkingWayWantSelfMatterCareImaginationDifferencesSubjectsSelf WorthLimitationLife ChangingWho CaresInkThings That MatterNet Worth Author:Mark Victor Hansen
“All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.” ProblemSpaceSubjectsMaterialsUltimateIntelligentLimitationConstraintsSpace TimeProblem Solvers Author:Marvin Minsky
“... Nothing resembles reality less than the photograph. Nothing resembles substance less than its shadow. To convey the meaning of something substantial you have to use not a shadow but a sign, not the limitation but the image. The image is a new and different reality, and of course it does not convey an impression of some object, but the mind of the subject; and that is something else again.” MindDoeDifferentUseRealityCoursesSubjectsObjectsShadowPhotographImpressionLimitationSubstanceDifferent Realities Author:Thomas Merton