Photography Quotes
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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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Photography is more than a window for me. Photography is more like a space that tries to capture situations.
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If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But it isn’t the alphabed that is important. The important thing is what you are writing, what you are expressing. The same thing goes for photography. Photographs can be technically perfect and even beautiful, but they have no expression.
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All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.
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Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival.
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My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.
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When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and 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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There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
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Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.
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...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.
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There are people who expect me to look the way I do on-screen, where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting. I'm sorry to disappoint people, but I don't look like that all the time - no actress does.
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If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.
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What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.
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Light-field photography is a transformational technology that needs a transformational product to introduce it. For the first time, we have a light-field camera that's going to be for everyone - not something in a huge room in a research facility.
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I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.
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Photography is a language more universal than words.
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I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me.
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For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.
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He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.
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Photography is a love affair with life.
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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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The most essential thing is love. Everything depends on it. Because everything even photography is for humans. There can never be a person devoid of love and photography devoid of people.
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I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.
