PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES II

quotations about photography

Photography quote

The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is a hunt for new states of things, situations never seen before, for the improbable, for information.

VILEM FLUSSER

Towards a Philosophy of Photography

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The definition of photography is changing, too, and becoming more of a language. We're attaching imagery to tweets or text messages, almost like a period at the end of a sentence. It's enhancing our communication in a whole new way.

JOSHUA ALLEN HARRIS

"In the Future, We Will Photograph Everything and Look at Nothing", The New Yorker, April 4, 2016


Composition in photography is almost as varied as composition in music or words -- melodic or atonal, safe or daring -- and can enhance subject, theme, and style. Every photograph you take involves you in some compositional decision, even if this is simply where to set up the camera or when to press the button.

MICHAEL LANGFORD

Basic Photography

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You put your camera around your neck in the morning, along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.

DOROTHEA LANGE

Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life


One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

DOROTHEA LANGE

Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life


The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.

JOHN BERGER

About Looking

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Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

EDWARD WESTON

The Daybooks of Edward Weston

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Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

MARC RIBOUD

FotoFest 90: The International Month of Photography: February 10-March 10


Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.

MASON COOLEY

City Aphorisms

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Photography is more than a means of recording the obvious. It is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever, whether it be a face or a flower, a place or a thing, a day or a moment.

AARON SISKIND

attributed, The Amateur Photographer's Handbook


To photograph ... is to put in the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

HENRI-CARTIER-BRESSON

Pix, 1993


Photography, if practiced with high seriousness, is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.

JOHN SZARKOWSKI

Looking at photographs: 100 pictures from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art


Life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference and it is important to see what is invisible to others.

ROBERT FRANK

attributed, Photographic Possibilities


When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

ALEKSANDAR HEMON

The Lazarus Project


There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

ANSEL ADAMS

attributed, Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age


Photography bears witness to the passage of time, but it cannot make statements as to the importance of things at any time, nor is it concerned with "truth and beauty" or with teasing out what underlies appearance. Rather, it voraciously records anything in view.

LIZ WELLS

Photography: A Critical Introduction

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The definition of a picture and the definition of photography is evolving in this truly digital space. Pictures can do things that pictures were never supposed to do.

RUSSELL ARMAND

"How the GIF Is Taking Over the World", Time, March 30, 2016


A photograph is a biography of a moment.

ART SHAY

interview, CBS News, February 13, 2014


The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

DOROTHEA LANGE

Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life


Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

ELLIOTT ERWITT

attributed, "100 inspirational photography quotes", Shootzilla