Photography Quotes
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I opened up Shutterstock to the whole world. I created a contributor community that anyone could give stock photography a shot.
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Over the years, photography has been to me what a journal is to a writer - a record of things seen and experienced, moments in the flow of time, documents of significance to me, experiments in seeing.
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Photography is the product of complete alienation.
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The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.
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Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.
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I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography. There are similar things - you have to be conscious of light and color and form - but it's a whole different medium.
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For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.
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A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.
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I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.
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Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of it. And finally, don't forget that the biggest joy in photography is making pictures of those things in your own life.
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I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.
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My main camera is a Nikon D3. I use a French camera from the 1800s for wet plate photography, I use a Hasselblad sometimes. But to me the camera really doesn't matter that much. I don't have a preference for film or digital.
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As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.
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It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down.
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There are people who like photography; there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want to get anything that seems hard. I don't know, but I think it's got to do with economics. Now and then you get somebody who buys a picture because he likes it.
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Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.
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There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.
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Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.
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The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect.
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This is the way photography can be cruel... in the sense that it describes everything, even the things we are not necessarily aware we're revealing.
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The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.
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Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors, concerned themselves with rendering reality with as much likeness as their skill enabled. Photography, however, made artistic reality much more available, more quickly and on a much broader scale.
