Photography Quotes
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Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
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My only interest in photographing is photography.
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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 son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was.
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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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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'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'
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I think I came alive when I started photography.
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There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no desire to create or stage direct ideas.
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Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at the beginning, but a voice. I could finally put into images bottled up feelings of absurdity and alienation - and also joy and delight.
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Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent... the camera.
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Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.
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My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in front of the camera, I bring you.
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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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With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.
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To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.
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I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.
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Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.
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I wish I were better at… photography. Sometimes it feels like I can’t capture everything with just a pen.
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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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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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Photography is in some ways false just because it is so exact.
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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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Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.
