Photography Quotes
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There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the U.K., there are no more than five, and they're all in London.
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I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.
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My passion is to open people's eyes to the sea using the power of photography as a universal language to convince the unconvinced among us that the oceans are fragile and finite.
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When I started using the extreme short depth of field and single point of focus, I was trying to replicate my changing eyesight. We have binocular vision; one eye perceives space from the other. I don't experience a scene visually at F32. It's more like F1.4.
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I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.
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I think I came alive when I started photography.
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Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.
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Having worked with so many of the geniuses, I'd learned so much. It's the best sort of photography school, to work with people like Penn or Avedon or Meisel.
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Photography is about a single point of a moment. It’s like stopping time. As everything gets condensed in that forced instant. But if you keep creating these points, they form a line which reflects your life.
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But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.
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I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
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How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? “No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography.
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If you are bored with your own photography you are really bored with what you are photographing, so pick a new subject about which you are knowledgeable and enthusiastic.
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My photography changed from being more documentary-like to arranging things more, and that came into being partly because I started doing music videos, and I incorporated some things from the music videos into my photography again, by arranging things more.
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Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.
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With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.
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I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point around fifteen or sixteen, I had a sense that photography could provide a bridge from the world of science to the world of art, or image. Photography was a means of crossing into a new place I didn’t know.
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Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.
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All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
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Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts.
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I had the attitude that I would work with this present-day material and do the best I could to describe it with photography, not intending to make any particular comment about whether it was good or bad or whether I liked it or not. It was just there, and I was interested in it. That's what I still do today.
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I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
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Photography is in some ways false just because it is so exact.
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...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.
