Photograph Quotes
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The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.
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The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs.
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There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.
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The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed
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All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.
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I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.
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I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.
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However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.
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It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!
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You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.
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You learn to see by practice. It's Just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look around at things, the more you see. The more you photograph, the more you realize what can be photographed and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.
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A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.
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For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do with the contest between content and form.
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I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it to refer to photographs they believe are loosely organized, or casually made, whatever you want to call it. Whatever terms you like. The fact is, when they're talking about snapshots they're talking about the family album picture, which is one of the most precisely made photographs.
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I have to photograph where I am.
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Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.
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My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.
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No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.
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Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had found in the Andromeda Nebula that appeared and disappeared on photographs of that object. The famous astronomer very patiently explains that these objects could not be stars because the Nebula was a nearby gaseous cloud within our own Milky Way system. Shapley takes his handkerchief from his pocket and wipes the identifying marks off the back of the photographic plate.
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Listen Wanderlei, I will do a home invasion on you. I will cut the power to your house and the next thing you'll hear is me climbing up your stairs in a pair of night vision goggles I bought in the back of Soldier of Fortune magazine. I'll pick the lock to the master room door, take a picture of you in bed with the Nogueira brothers working on your 'jiu-jitsu'. I'll take said quote unquote photograph, post it at dorksfrombrazil.com, password - not required, username - not required. That, Wanderlei, is how you threaten someone. Dummy.
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A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.
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A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
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A photograph can look any way.
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Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible for how it [the photograph] looks. And it's not plastic, in a way. The problem is unique in photographic terms.
