Quotes by Photography As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love. Alfred Stieglitz photography matter names The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art. Alfred Stieglitz photography expression art I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique. Alfred Stieglitz quality photography long The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor. Alfred Stieglitz photography hands years The fight for photography became my life. Alfred Stieglitz fighting photography Photography is my passion. Alfred Stieglitz passion photography photographer Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze. Alfred Stieglitz fads legs photography Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs. Alfred Stieglitz photography mistake ideas If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say: He always treated me like a gentleman. Alfred Stieglitz gentleman photography photographer I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing. Alfred Stieglitz photography artist may Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art. Alfred Stieglitz photography real art I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its fight... I am not fighting to make a 'name' for myself. Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. It's a world's fight... All that's born of spirit seems mad in these days of materialism run riot. Alfred Stieglitz photography struggle running I am suspicious and disillusioned about the uses and misuses of photography in the art world, the press, and the world of entertainment. And to make things more complicated, I don't think that the general public is well educated regarding images. Generally we are taught how to read, but we are not taught how to look. Alfredo Jaar photography art thinking I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the nature of how we live through photography, and how you can twist an angle to create a different perception of a person. Alison Jackson creating perception photography Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency. Alison Jackson complacency photography believe Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world. Allan Sekula envy understanding photography Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy. Allan Sekula mastery photography promise How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs? Allan Sekula historical photography memories An unnoticed corner of the world suddenly becomes noticed, and when you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it becomes sacred. (On Robert Frank's photography) Allen Ginsberg sacred photography world It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848) Alphonse de Lamartine photography mean art «23456789101112»