Quotes by Photography What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction. Aaron Siskind photography character memories However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced. Aaron Siskind stress photography photographer I never really learned photography. Abbas Kiarostami photography I think I'm no different to my friends who are doctors or businessmen or architects - we all started watching films of the golden age together. But whether I'm making films or writing poetry or doing photography, it's very much rooted in my sense of unease. And that's really where everything goes back to. Abbas Kiarostami photography writing thinking There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It's getting very dull now. So, okay photography doesn't tell the truth. So what? Everyone has known this forever. Abelardo Morell photography done forever Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at the beginning, but a voice. I could finally put into images bottled up feelings of absurdity and alienation - and also joy and delight. Abelardo Morell voice crazy photography ...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me? Abelardo Morell why-not strange photography Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!! Abhijeet Sawant photography essence patience In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun. Abigail Solomon-Godeau finals gun photography Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode. Abigail Solomon-Godeau exhausted photography art ... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated - as though it had created itself. Abigail Solomon-Godeau cameras photography self Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals of the arriviste. Inasmuch as one of those rituals consists of the establishment of suitable ancestry, a search for distinguished bloodlines, it inevitably happens that photographic history and criticism are more concern with notions of tradition and continuity than with those of rupture and change. Abigail Solomon-Godeau photography long art I love photography. Photographers and photos. I took a ton of pictures in Paris, and I find that I'm most inspired by following other photographers on Instagram. Abigail Spencer instagram paris photography There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes. Abraham Lincoln photography faces looks I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point around fifteen or sixteen, I had a sense that photography could provide a bridge from the world of science to the world of art, or image. Photography was a means of crossing into a new place I didn't know. Adam Fuss photography mean art ... a fact about photography: we can look at people's faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states - for a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love. Adam Gopnik emotional photography sleep I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design. Ai Weiwei photography people art The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself Ai Weiwei photography mean reality The artistry on the show [ Underground] is apparent in each episode. From the riveting writing to the purposeful and precise direction, the masterful work of the DP [Director of Photography] Kevin McKnight and his crew, and the layers and depths each actor goes to to ensure we the audience feel a human connection to these characters led me to sign my name on the dotted line. Aisha Hinds photography writing character Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter. Alain de Botton anxiety photography losing «1234567891011»