Photograph Quotes - Page 10

• There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Jobs, Manipulation

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• "It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the day has a distinct quality, as it fades toward the darkness of evening. After sunset there is a gentle leaving of the light, the air begins to still, and a quiet descends. I see magic in the quiet light of dusk. I feel quiet, yet intense energy in the natural elements of our habitat. A sense of magic prevails. A sense of mystery. It is a time for contemplation, for listening - a time for making photographs. "

  John Sexton

  Photography, Sunset, Light

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• I collect rare photographs... I have two... One of Houdini locking his keys in his car... the other is a rare picture of Norman Rockwell beating up a child.

  Steven Wright

  Children, Keys, Two

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• I would love to photograph Angelina Jolie. A friend of mine is working with her on her next film and told me what I was already suspecting, that she is extremely interesting. I have never seen a picture of her that conveys all of her complexity. That would be a fabulous challenge, to find that in a photograph.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Interesting, Challenges, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study.

  John Dyer

  Winter, Weather, Drawing

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• I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.

  John Sexton

  Beautiful, Artist, Photographer

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• I like to put a single photograph in different contexts, to see how it takes on other meanings, how being locked in a new dialogue exposes another potential. It's like dating other people in order to get to know yourself.

  Torbjørn Rødland

  People, Dating, Different

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• I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.

  Errol Morris

  Taken, Thinking, Guarantees

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• A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have the irrational power of the photograph to bear away our faith.

  Andre Bazin

  Drawing, Faithful, May

  André Bazin (2005). “What is Cinema?”, p.14, Univ of California Press

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• [The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.

  Andre Bazin

  Becoming, Virtue, Share

  André Bazin (2005). “What is Cinema?”, p.14, Univ of California Press

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• It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.

  Harry Callahan

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

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• ... 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

  Photography, Sleep, Emotional

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• Boy George has been charged with falsely imprisoning a man who'd gone to his apartment to pose for photographs. Going to Boy George's house to get your picture taken is like going to David Copperfield's island for a radio opportunity.

  Chelsea Handler

  Taken, Boys, Opportunity

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• Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on as fleetingly as the photograph is enduring.

  Diane Keaton

  Moving, Cameras, Immortality

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• A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates and which is eternal through time.

  Jeff Koons

  Spiritual, Essence, Doe

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• Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different plane from an obviously subjective form of visual communication such as painting.

  Tibor Kalman

  Real, Communication, Ideas

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• I enjoyed learning something and, uh, so I think like with anything in life, in the schoolroom in an artistic endeavor, if you have just a really good teacher, it's inspiring. I certainly use, in my work, I mean, I used to rely heavily on imagery. I was obsessed with this photograph that was in the NY Times of a fish engulfing a smaller fish and this smaller fish had this look in its eyes; it knew what was about to happen and, I don't know how they ever captured such an image, but I've used that for a play I (did). It's called "Saved."

  Amy Ryan

  Teacher, Mean, Eye

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're somebody who has the pretension to make art, it's completely different from when someone else says I want to make a book of your art. You don't decide the title, you don't decide the size, the order of the photographs . . . so it's completely out of control!

  Luis Gonzalez

  Art, Book, Order

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Said, Relevance

  Olafur Eliasson, Matthew Drutt (2004). “Olafur Eliasson: photographs”

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• We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.

  Chris Marker

  Art, Levels, Personal History

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• I don't think that there's that much difference between a photograph of a fist up someone's ass and a photograph of carnations in a bowl.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Thinking, Differences, Fists

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• Always, when the words art and artistic are applied to my photographic work, I am disagreeably affected. This is due, surely, to the bad use and abuse made of those terms. I consider myself a photographer, nothing more. If my photographs differ from that which is usually done in this field, it is precisely because I try to produce not art but honest photographs, without distortions or manipulations.

  Tina Modotti

  Art, Abuse, Trying

  Tina Modotti, Robert Miller, Spencer Throckmorton, Robert Miller Gallery (New York, N.Y.) (1997). “Tina Modotti: photographs”

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• ... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth.

  Michael Light

  Cameras, Gravestone, Impression

  "100 Suns and the Nuclear Sublime". Interview with Robert Hirsch, lightresearch.net. July / August 2005.

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• I don't particularly care about photographic authorship. Whether an astronaut who doesn't even have a viewfinder makes an image, a robotic camera, a military photographer, or Mike Light really doesn't matter. What matters is the context of the final photograph and the meaning it generates within that context.

  Michael Light

  Military, What Matters, Light

  "100 Suns and the Nuclear Sublime". Interview with Robert Hirsch, lightresearch.net. July / August 2005.

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• I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.

  Danny Lyon

  Responsible, Feels

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