Photography Quotes - page 2

So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example. (Jean Baudrillard)
It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is even perhaps the disappearance of reality that triggered this technical form. Reality found a way to mutate into an image. View quote
Jean Baudrillard
It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage. View quote
Val Kilmer
I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism - real life - the now. View quote
Berenice Abbott
Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. View quote
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it. View quote
Aubrey Beardsley
But, o, photography! as no art is, Faithful and disappointing! That records Dull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds, And will not censor blemishes, Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards. View quote
Philip Larkin
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. View quote
Tony Benn
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it. Degas liked it not only because it provided an accurate record, but because the snapshot showed him a means of escape from the classical rules of design. Through it he learnt to make a composition without the use of formal symmetry. View quote
Kenneth Clark
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. View quote
John Berger
The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts with the photographer's thinking about the subject he photographs and is continued in the mind of the spectator. (Roman Vishniac)
What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos - and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them - that is interesting. View quote
Helmut Newton
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. View quote
Ansel Adams
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. View quote
Ansel Adams
I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography. View quote
Ben Shahn
You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me. View quote
Sophia Bush
I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design. View quote
William Landay
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. View quote
Jessica Lange
Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be. View quote
Edward Weston
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)
Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell. View quote
Kim Edwards
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. View quote
Alfred Stieglitz
Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze. View quote
Alfred Stieglitz
The fight for photography became my life. View quote
Alfred Stieglitz