Photography Quotes
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I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.
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Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point of view is developed and young people are inclined to follow it.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.
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I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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What you see is real - but only on the particular level to which you've developed your sense of seeing. You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving.
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As in any person's life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down's syndrome; through my photography, I have witnessed all manner of human degradation. But there have also been very happy moments.
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There are many reasons why photography does not attract the social and cultural attention it deserves. I would add one more which has received scant attention: it does not make a lot of noise. ... Perhaps photography would be more appreciated if camera shutters fired with the sound of a .357 Magnum.
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Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to create an interference pattern with the image. Who he is, what he believes, not only becomes important to know intellectually, but also becomes revealed emotionally and visibly through a body of work.
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I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.
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I came to photography by accident.
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Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.
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Isn't it amazing how photography has advanced without improving.
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Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.
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It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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I discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life.
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I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.
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Photography is space, light, texture, of course, but the really important element is time - that nanosecond when the image organizes itself on the ground glass.
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Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.
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In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
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A photographic session is a joint, interpersonal exchange, a kind of creative encounter session at a high level of intensity. For me, photography is more a process of creating an experience than one of looking for pictures.
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I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.
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in the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a universe can be revealed.
