Photograph Quotes - Page 14

• You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always something beside it.

  Thomas Ruff

  Photography, World, Cameras

  "Journal of Contemporary Art" Interview with Philip Pocock, www.jca-online.com.

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• I still dream of the day when I will take a photograph so beautiful that it can be called love.

  Jan Saudek

  Beautiful, Dream, Stills

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• No new photographs until all the old ones have been used up.

  Joachim Schmid

  Used, Has Beens

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• I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.

  Martin Schoeller

  Lying, Thinking, Personality

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• The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

  Allan Sekula

  Utterance, Messages, Incomplete

  Allan Sekula (1984). “Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983”

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• The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

  Allan Sekula

  Objective Truth, Offers, Assertion

  Allan Sekula (1984). “Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983”

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• 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

  Photography, Memories, Historical

  Allan Sekula, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (2002). “Fish story”

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• I'm not modest about myself. I know for a fact that I am good. But good in the sense that I can put things together. I expound vociferously to students of architecture and photography, the significance of design. A photograph is a design in which you assemble thoughts in your mind.

  Julius Shulman

  Photography, Design, Mind

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• All aspects of photography interest me and I feel for the female body the same curiosity and the same love as for a landscape, a face or anything else which interests me. In any case, the nude is a form of landscape. There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment, on the mood of the model.

  Jeanloup Sieff

  Photography, Curiosity, Body

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• There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful than any other photographs.

  Taryn Simon

  Photography, Truthful, Said

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• You come to the photograph as an aesthetic object with no context... Then you step in and read the text and then out again to revisit the image in a completely different way. I'm interested in that space between text and image. The piece becomes the negative space between the two.

  Taryn Simon

  Two, Space, Way

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• The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting - photography is more demanding when it doesn't pretend to know.

  Taryn Simon

  Photography, Clubs, Claims

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• I started to concentrate more upon how the viewer looks at photographs... I would insert my own text or my own specific reading of the image to give the viewer something they might not interpret or surmise, due to their educated way of looking at images, and reading them for their emotional, psychological, and/or sociological values. So I would start to interject these things that the photograph would not speak of and that I felt needed to be revealed, but that couldn't be revealed from just looking at an image.

  Lorna Simpson

  Reading, Emotional, Giving

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• If you could see a photograph of what it took to make an advertising photograph - things you don't think about, like the photo assistant carefully arranging the meatballs - the degree of unnaturalness would be astonishing. Yet it produces an image that looks natural, and is orchestrated to provoke basic emotional responses.

  Sandy Skoglund

  Emotional, Thinking, Assistants

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• I think I'm really fortunate to be an installation artist who is heavily invested in photography: I don't have the emotional problems with the loss of work that some installation artists have. The photographs wouldn't exist without the installation... but at the same time, I think I'd kill myself if I only did installations. There's something deeply tragic about doing work that you know is temporal.

  Sandy Skoglund

  Photography, Loss, Emotional

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• To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.

  Michael Snow

  Photography, Art, Depth

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• I'm very much against photographs being framed and treated with reverence and signed and sold as works of art. They aren't. They should be seen in a magazine or a book and then be used to wrap up the fish and chucked away.

  Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

  Art, Book, Magazines

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• I think it is quite wrong to photograph, for example, Garbo, if she doesn't want to be photographed. Now I would have loved to photograph her, but she obviously didn't want to be photographed so I didn't follow it up. Then somebody will photograph her walking down the street because she has to walk down the street, and I mind that sort of intrusion. I think this is horrible.

  Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

  Thinking, Mind, Example

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• I believe that photographs should be simple technically, and easy to look at. They shouldn't be directed at other photographers; their point is to make ordinary people react - to laugh, or to see something they hadn't taken in before, or to be touched. But not to wince, I think.

  Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

  Believe, Taken, Simple

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• I'm not a great one for chatting people up, because it's phony. I don't want people to feel at ease. You want a bit of edge. There are quite long, agonized silences. I love it. Something strange might happen. I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It's very cruel.

  Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

  Mean, Long, People

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• ... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated - as though it had created itself.

  Abigail Solomon-Godeau

  Photography, Self, Cameras

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• In a world where the 2 billionth photograph has been uploaded to Flickr, which looks like an Eggleston picture! How do you deal with making photographs with the tens of thousands of photographs being uploaded to Facebook every second, how do you manage that? How do you contribute to that? What's the point?

  Alec Soth

  Looks, World, Deals

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• Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of the 1940s and 50s were no such thing. Ansell Adams would slap a red filter on his lens, then spend three days burning and dodging in the dark room, making his prints. That's a manipulation. Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

  Joel Sternfeld

  Dark, People, Filters

  "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.

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• Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a frame to the world, it's an interpretation. I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame. You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. There's an infinite number of ways you can do this: photographs have always been authored.

  Joel Sternfeld

  Photography, Two, Numbers

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• I'm interested in photographs that have no personal signature.

  Thomas Struth

  Signatures

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