Photography Quotes
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You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.
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I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have.
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Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much.
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Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
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I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.
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My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.
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I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.
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The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.
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Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself!
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I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.
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Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all.
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I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.
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For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality
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Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.
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The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
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When I was studying photography, I became interested in conflict photojournalism, and that got me interested in lighting. Then I realized there was this amazing thing called cinematography where you could kind of tell more complete stories photographing for film. So I ended up going to AFI grad school for that.
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I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand.
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The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
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Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and about the surrounding country; the taste strengthening as my successes became greater in proportion to the failures.
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Photography is compellingly attractive because it is recording light. But it’s not so much for me the light in photographs that I’ve been attracted to, it is the experience of light in my life that interested me in photography.
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My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was.
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Photography, sculpture, and painting were wielded as cultural weapons over the course of generations to substantiate the idea that black people were inherently subordinate beings; they were used to make slavery acceptable and to make black subjugation more palatable.
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I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
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All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
