Mediums Quotes - Page 16

You can't teach people photography, they've got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. They can learn from looking at pictures taken by well-known people, but they don't really get intimate with the medium until they've made a few bad shots!

Cecil Beaton

Photography, Taken, People

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The film [Boy and the World]gave me the possibility to create a new language. Animation is a very rich medium but hasn't fully been exploited by artists. Often artists are trapped by words.

Alex Abreu

Artist, Boys, World

Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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Trends in culture all serve a purpose and that's always indicative in fashion and music, you can always tell what's going on culturally in the mindset of the young generation if you look at those mediums.

Marina and the Diamonds

Fashion, Young Generation, Generations

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Films are born from screenplays and they are guided by words. They are born very limited and there is no space for real creation: graphic creation, pictorial creation, or audiovisual creation. If we really want to use the art of animation with all its strength, we have to rethink the processes by which it's made because the medium is the message.

Alex Abreu

Art, Real, Space

Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.

Andreas Gursky

Photography, Definitions, Impossible

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The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.

Chuck Close

Photography, Media, Different

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Photography, precisely because it can only be produced in the present and because it is based on what exists objectively before the camera, takes its place as the most satisfactory medium for registering objective life in all its aspects, and from this comes its documental value. If to this is added sensibility and understanding and, above all, a clear orientation as to the place it should have in the field of historical development, I believe that the result is something worthy of a place in social production, to which we should all contribute.

Tina Modotti

Photography, Believe, Should Have

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To know whether photography is or is not an art matters little. What is important is to distinguish between good and bad photography. By good is meant that photography which accepts all the limitations inherent in photographic technique and takes advantage of the possibilities and characteristics the medium offers. By bad photography is mean that which is done, one may say, with a kind of inferiority complex, with no appreciation of what photography itself offers: but on the contrary, recurring to all sorts of imitations.

Tina Modotti

Photography, Appreciation, Art

Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti, Whitechapel Art Gallery (1982). “Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti”

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It always amazes me that just when I think there's nothing left to do in photography and that all permutations and possibilities have been exhausted, someone comes along and puts the medium to new use, and makes it his or her own, yanks it out of this kind of amateur status, and makes it as profound and as moving and as formally interesting as any other medium.

Chuck Close

Photography, Moving, Thinking

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The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does not succeed in giving their work the most valuable characteristic it should have, - photographic quality.

Tina Modotti

Expression, Should Have, Giving

Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti, Whitechapel Art Gallery (1982). “Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti”

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No one can really explain in a rational way what makes a good photograph or a bad photograph... This is why the art world will not throw billions of dollars at photography the way it has at painting; and that is what makes it an exciting medium.

David Wojnarowicz

Photography, Art, Dollars

David Wojnarowicz (2017). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.127, Canongate Books

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Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. It would seem that each medium has absorbed the other, leaving the photographic residing everywhere, but nowhere in particular.

Geoffrey Batchen

Photography, Past, Media

Geoffrey Batchen (2002). “Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History”, p.109, MIT Press

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We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other artistic technique, possibilities that the eye cannot catch in their totality. We tried to establish a characteristic vision of photography.

Piet Zwart

Photography, Mean, Eye

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It occurs to me that at the beginning one works passionately to learn photography. This takes years, and the craft is usually formed during this period. Then as time passes one finds oneself more in the role of serving the medium... Then, as in the example of several masters that I have been privileged to know personally, it appears that by having devoted oneself totally to the medium, one becomes photography.

Ralph Gibson

Photography, Years, Crafts

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...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the medium like silver salts in film.

Andy Grundberg

May, Salt, Ethics

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Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.

John Gossage

Photography, Simple, Oil

Interview with Jonathan Blaustein, aphotoeditor.com. September 23, 2013.

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I believe that the medium of photography prevails entirely as an act of faith in the souls of those who love and practice it. And so every photograph becomes another subtle variation on the theme of the medium itself.

Ralph Gibson

Photography, Believe, Practice

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Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn't mean I'm a photographer.

Nikki S. Lee

Mean, Use, Photographer

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... despite the limitations and problems inherent to photographic representation (and especially the representation of politics), it remains for me the most powerful and engaging medium today - one central to the development of cultural dialogue.

Richard Misrach

Powerful, Development, Today

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To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.

John Gutmann

Photography, Ideas, Painting

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The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.

Peter Schjeldahl

Photography, Art, Eye

"Seeing and Reading" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. July 26, 2004.

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One reason for making and exhibiting a work is to induce a reaction or change in the viewer.... In this sense, the work as such is nonexistent except when it functions as a medium of change between the artist and viewer.

Adrian Piper

Artist, Reason, Reactions

Adrian Piper (1974). “Talking to Myself: The Ongoing Autobiography of an Art Object”

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Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense of truth. I think that's great, because it frees photography from factuality, the same way photography freed painting from factuality in the mid-nineteenth century.

Vik Muniz

Photography, Thinking, Way

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... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it.

Ezra Stoller

Photography, Art, Typewriters

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I got into photography because of the immediacy of the medium. I used to sit in front of a canvas for weeks trying to create something. Now I can see the image right away.

Mario Sorrenti

Photography, Trying, Canvas

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