Alexa Chung Quotes
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I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
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In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have Bresson's 'Decisive Moment,' Frank's 'The Americans'... many masterpieces. But there is nothing to this caliber in color. Well, I think I'll waltz with my muse and hope that I might be able to produce something on this order in color.
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
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My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
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I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.
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I think that women can tend to look so feminine so easily. So it's interesting to see how we can look masculine and strong, too.
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The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.
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Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.
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As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
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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.
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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.'
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People say they have to express their emotions. I’m sick of that. Photography doesn’t teach you how to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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Today, I am no longer concerned with photography as an art form. I believe it is potentially the best medium for explaining man to himself and his fellow man.
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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.
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My photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which I've done my whole life. I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set.
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To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye and yet, the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory.
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My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls... one of those.
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I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.
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Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist
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In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?
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I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being.
