Photograph Quotes - Page 15

• The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.

  Thomas Struth

  Metaphor, Function, Propose

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• For me, making a photograph is mostly an intellectual process of understanding people or cities and their historical and phenomenological connections. At that point the photo is almost made, and all that remains is the mechanical process.

  Thomas Struth

  Cities, People, Understanding

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• [When] I am taking a photograph, I am conscious that I am constructing images rather than taking snapshots. Since I do not take rapid photographs it is in this respect like a painting which takes a long time where you are very aware of what you are doing in the process. Exposure is only the final act of making the image as a photograph.

  Thomas Struth

  Long, Finals, Snapshots

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• Our editors, I'm afraid, have come to believe that the photograph is an end in itself. They've forgotten that the photograph is only the subsidiary, the little brother, of the word.

  Roy Stryker

  Brother, Believe, Editors

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• Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway.

  Larry Sultan

  Believe, Knowing Better, Laughing

  "At Home With Larry Sultan" by Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 7, 2014.

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• What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of veracity, that they look like life rather than movie stills. I don't want them to look fabricated.

  Larry Sultan

  Important, Looks, Goes On

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• I'm very interested in making the photographs look real, but a lot of them are highly synthetic. They're hybrids, located somewhere between the found and the constructed.

  Larry Sultan

  Real, Looks, Synthetic

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• The person who looks at a photograph as a complete picture, unable to say anything about anything except the facts which existed at the moment of exposure, does not see very far.

  Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

  Say Anything, Looks, Facts

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• The relationship I have with my mother now, and photographing her in front of the grave, it opens up discussions, and dealings with the conversations with my mother about, when I was little, how we lived and about suicide and talking about it, so it's something positive, it brought us more together, because people might never discuss that. Some families never go near certain subjects because it's too hurtful or too close or too dangerous. But within doing these photographs, I also wanted to open up a conversation with her about certain things about life.

  Jurgen Teller

  Mother, Suicide, Talking

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• The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera, but never lie about the intentions behind the camera.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Lying, Cameras, Authenticity

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• A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.

  Shomei Tomatsu

  Body, Fragments, Distillation

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• A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an autarchy, a dictatorship.

  Oliviero Toscani

  Reflection, Individuality, Television

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• My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that extends my natural ability and desire for meaningful organization. I need it to survive.

  Arthur Tress

  Meaningful, Organization, Desire

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• The photographic image has great possibilities. The magical photograph attempts to go beyond the immediate context of the recorded experience into the realm of the indefinable. The photographer as magician is acutely aware of the multiplicity of associations submerged in the appearance of the objective world.

  Arthur Tress

  World, Association, Photographer

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• There was a time when photographers were thought to be socially secondary, and, hence, not dangerous. Lincoln was more important than Brady. It didn't occur to anyone to worry about the manner in which a photograph was taken.

  George W. S. Trow

  Taken, Worry, Important

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• I don't consider [my] photographs fashion photographs. The photographs were for fashion, but at the same time they had an ulterior motive, something more to do with the world in general.

  Deborah Turbeville

  Fashion, World, Motive

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• When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.

  Gillian Wearing

  Art, Magazines, Might

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• The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.

  Alex Webb

  Eye, Compact, Viewers

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• It's not that I don't care about content, but content is not the only way a photograph has meaning.

  James Welling

  Care, Way, I Don't Care

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• A photograph records both the thing in front of the camera and the conditions of its making... A photograph is also a document of the state of mind of the photographer. And if you were to extend the idea of the set-up photograph beyond just physically setting up the picture, I would argue that the photographer wills the picture into being.

  James Welling

  Ideas, Mind, Cameras

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• Even an ugly, abject photograph bears the recording of its making... my goal [is] to create dense objects, works in which many lines of thought converge.

  James Welling

  Goal, Ugly, Lines

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• I went through a long period when I thought my photographs were not visible - on the wall, but not visible.

  Jack Welpott

  Wall, Long, Periods

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• Part of the fascination that photography holds is its ability to unlock secrets kept even from ourselves. Like dreams, the photograph can uncork a heady bouquet of recognition which can escape into the cognitive world.

  Jack Welpott

  Photography, Dream, Secret

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• I often had to pass over photographs because in a mass of animals invariably one would be wandering in the wrong direction, thereby disrupting the pattern I was trying to achieve. Today the ability to digitally alter this disruption is at hand.

  Art Wolfe

  Animal, Hands, Trying

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• The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber.

  Peter Wollen

  Photography, Past, Stopping

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