Photography Quotes
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I can appreciate the idea that with e-books more people would publish, the work would be easier to disseminate, and that it could even be interactive. Being a lover of photography, I especially like the idea that you could include lots of pictures - full-color pictures - with your writing. That to me is exciting! We'll all have to stay tuned to see what develops.
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I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.
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Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the camera. They are not reality, they form part of the language of culture.
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I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me
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Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.
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This profession photography is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
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Because I know war... because I know the horror, I don't want to add to it. .........After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this.
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Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.
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...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.
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The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us.
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Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth.
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Photography is a language more universal than words.
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Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.
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Making these photographs has often seemed to me like a kind of dance. Often I have danced badly and the world has fallen apart at my feet. But sometimes the dance has gone well and my subject and I have moved together as if with shared purpose.
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With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.
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I just wanted to be creative, so I did photography, and that led me ultimately to music.
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I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.
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I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley Horn. I am inspired by my mentor Diana Castle, who is guiding me towards a truth and honesty in my life and work that I have always longed for.
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For me photography is just a way to collect material to realize the ideas in my mind. I get inspired by things around me in my daily life and all kinds of things I see. Every new project is a new challenge and my goal is to realize them as realistic as possible.
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The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.
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Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!
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Max Kozloff said to me one day, ‘You’re not really a photographer. You do photography, but you do it for your own purposes – your purposes are not the same as others’. I’m not quite sure what he meant, but I like that. I like the way he put it.
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Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.
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Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.
