Allan Sekula Quotes
Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.
Allan Sekula
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I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
Ori Gersht
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I never read about photography.
Sally Mann
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
P. J. Harvey
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My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
Parker Stevenson
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After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but I wasn't really enjoying it very much, so I decided to do something creative, and in 2009, I began blogging.
Zoe Sugg
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In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.
Adam Jones
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I've been working almost 20 years, and I think I've worked with maybe one black director of photography in that time. Maybe two women directors or DPs. Maybe. And I've done a lot of TV. That's a lot of people I've worked with.
Mahershala Ali
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I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me.
Tyson Chandler
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I still maintain several different outlets of artistry, like my music, photography, writing and all those things. I don't pigeonhole myself into one thing. I do all sorts of things, and that's so important to me.
Jesse Johnson
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I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.
Jeff Bridges
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Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me.
Don McCullin
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I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.
Don McCullin
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For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.
John Sexton
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A photograph can look any way.
Garry Winogrand
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Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of it. And finally, don't forget that the biggest joy in photography is making pictures of those things in your own life.
David Burnett
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Painted talking heads is just boring.
Brian Azzarello
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Many priests say that retirement is more identified with freedom from meetings, budgets, personnel conflicts, and "dealing with the Chancery." Even as I struggled not to take that last point too personally, I was reminded that I have heard the same sentiment from many of my bishop friends as well!
Wilton Daniel Gregory
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Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.
Allan Sekula
