Photography Quotes
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Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.
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Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
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The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
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People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.
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A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He was the first person to put a police scanner in a car and drive around.
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In the 1950's there was a kind of agreement that a good artist would do something in his picture that acknowledge the edge, but it was a question of doing something when you got to the edge. Cropping was something new. It came from photography and from w:Clement Greenberg. It was resisted as being too easy.
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Becoming a professional artist takes talent and perseverance, even more so when the field is photography.
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When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary is police photography of a scene and a murder ... that's a real document. You see, art is really useless, and a document has use. And therefore, art is never a document, but it can adopt that style. I do it. I'm called a documentary photographer. But that presupposes a quite subtle knowledge of this distinction.
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I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.
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Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.
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My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened, elements of the photo are diminished. There is no sense of truth when you're looking at the painting or the photo or that moment when the photo was first taken.
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Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
Elliott Erwitt -
First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography.
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Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.
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Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
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I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.
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I'm studying art and photography, like film and digital - a mix of both.
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To me, the main and most exciting thing about photography is to meet people. The picture is the result of what happened between me and them on the set.
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The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and the director of photography and the guys in the camera truck - and you're all coming together. There's a great feeling when that is a successful unit, a successful family.
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Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but not enough.
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Photography is a pursuit that allows you to be very hands-on with what you show people of either yourself or the art you want to make, and acting is kind of the exact opposite. You do have a modicum of creative freedom as an actor, but you're still very much a cipher for other people's art.
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For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.
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If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.
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I never shot on sets, but if I was traveling somewhere or on location, I would always have my camera, and I'd always be - it's that kind of fly on the wall approach to photography, though. I don't engage the subject. I like to sneak around, skulk about in the dark.
