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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'T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.'
Banksy
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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 first worked on sports photography, and it was until 2002, when I was already 32 years old, that I really started working and enjoying Africa's wildlife.
Laurent Baheux
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Photography of any living being, according to Taliban rule, was illegal. So when I went to Afghanistan, immediately I was worried about photographing people. But it was what I wanted: to show what life was like under the Taliban, specifically for women.
Lynsey Addario
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I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.
Persis Khambatta
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I'm inspired by it all - the good and the not so good - because every experience is an opportunity for me to learn, grow, and become the best version of myself.
Ashlee Nicole "Nikki" DeLoach
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Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?
Christine O'Donnell
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Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.
Allan Sekula
