Photography Quotes
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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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Let a man of genius make use of photography as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.
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Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.
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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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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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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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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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I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!
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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 think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.
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We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.
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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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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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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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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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Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
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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.
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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.
