Photograph Quotes - Page 11

• During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted reality as static and immobile, early photographs represented the world as stable, eternal, unshakable.

  Lev Manovich

  Photography, Reality, Drawing

  Lev Manovich (2001). “The Language of New Media”, p.168, MIT Press

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• I am a postmodern romantic. I try to use their way to photograph, and at the same time, incorporate the problems that I feel in a country like Guatemala.

  Luis Gonzalez

  Country, Trying, Use

  Source: www.raintaxi.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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• 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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• The collection of photographs is a statement about the relationship of my camera and me.

  Ray Metzker

  Cameras, Collections, Statements

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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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• My pictures are not really about the children that I photograph. They're more like actors in a film. I think you can always recognize the children, but they are alienated from their real appearance and become more like metaphors.

  Loretta Lux

  Children, Real, Thinking

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• I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to a form for the surreal. I have been called a preacher - but, in reality, I'm more generally philosophical. I have never made an abstracted photograph without content. An educated background in Zen influences all of my photographs. It has been said that my work resembles, more closely than any photographer, Le Douanier Rousseau - working in a fairly isolated area and feeding mostly on myself - I feel that I am a primitive photographer.

  Ralph Eugene Meatyard

  Philosophical, Reality, Groups

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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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• A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa.

  Douglas McCulloh

  Meaningful, Important, Vices

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• Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.

  Douglas McCulloh

  Photography, Short Life, Years

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• Photographs should celebrate the contingent, the spontaneous, the incomplete, the fortuitous. Direct, unblinking vision should be coupled with deliberate indifference as to subject. The ironic goal is a scrupulous recording of whatever chance brings to hand.

  Douglas McCulloh

  Hands, Goal, Ironic

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• It's important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation - to become a thing different from what we are used to, to be another version of itself.

  Abelardo Morell

  Important, Different, Transformation

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• [My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy. It is like the animals I use. They are posed in order to appear to be alive, but they are dead. Their time has passed. The photos have to do with time and loss, and conclusion.

  Annette Messager

  Loss, Animal, Love Is

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• The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.

  Christian Metz

  Order, People, Ordinary

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• Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of loved beings who are no longer alive. But there is another real death which each of us undergoes every day, as each day we draw nearer to our own death. Even when the person photographed is still living, that moment when she or he was has forever vanished.

  Christian Metz

  Photography, Memories, Real

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• I never wanted to make portraits - to photograph celebrities, beautiful people, beautiful landscapes, beautiful buildings, or people in distressing situations.... I have always been interested in everyman - average, ordinary people in everyday situations.

  Ray Metzker

  Beautiful, Average, People

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• Merging photographs can be more real than the isolated image because reality is so much more rich than just an isolated moment.

  Pedro Meyer

  Real, Moments, Rich

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• Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you, accommodate you, illuminate you, put make up on you or use a filter, am I not manipulating reality? The only difference is that now I can do it from the computer in the postclick instead of the preclick. If I decide to photograph something instead of something else, I also manipulate reality. Of course a photograph can lie or commit abuse, but it always could.

  Pedro Meyer

  Photography, Lying, Reality

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• A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

  Jean-Francois Millet

  Taken, Casts, Inferiors

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• I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from vantage points I hadn't considered before.

  Abelardo Morell

  Children, Looks, Vantage Point

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• ... my father loved to take photographs of me. When I was nine I made my own costumes for a school play and I experienced becoming different characters. I loved to document myself as different images and I think my work evolved after this favorite activity. The photographs I exhibited in New York juxtaposed reality and fantasy. There was everyday life and fantasy was dismantling that reality.

  Mariko Mori

  New York, Father, School

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• If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.

  Daido Moriyama

  Light, Fossils, Few Words

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• I realized eventually that if I was really on top of what I was doing, I should be able to make photographs out of almost anything.

  Grant Mudford

  Able, Should, I Realized

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