On Photography Quotes
As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
That celebrated marriage of science and art, photography, seemed at the time to join together how we look at the world, art, with how we were coming to know it, science.
When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.
I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.
Becoming a professional artist takes talent and perseverance, even more so when the field is photography.
One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.
Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.
My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.
There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.
... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable attribute.
Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.
The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.
If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.
When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture but, instead, that it stimulates my thinking and intrigues me.
The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.
I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.
Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.
We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.
It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
Pictures put you in front of a reality that most of the times you don't want to see, don't want to know about, don't want to get involved.
Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.
A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time... Everything was touched with magic.
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality
Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.
I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.
Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind that I like to photograph.
What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.
I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.
There’s a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.
Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.
Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age
