Photograph Quotes - Page 22

• For me, this is one of the advantages of not using digital, I never know when I have a good photograph! I practice doubt as a way to push myself into alternative compositions by selective focus, different speeds of exposure, and unusual perspectives.

  Michael Kenna

  Practice, Perspective, Focus

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• I prefer to think of photography as a never ending journey with infinite possibilities. I love to return to places to re photograph. Nothing is ever the same. The options are endless.

  Michael Kenna

  Photography, Journey, Thinking

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• I enjoy places that have mystery and atmosphere, perhaps a patina of age, a suggestion rather than a description, a question or two. I look for memories, traces, evidence of the human interaction with the landscape. Sometimes I photograph pure nature, sometimes urban structures.

  Michael Kenna

  Memories, Two, Atmosphere

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• I don't have anything against colour. It is just not my first preference. I have always found black and white photographs to be quieter and more mysterious than those made in colour.

  Michael Kenna

  Black And White, Firsts, Mysterious

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• I don't think it is even possible to define what a good photograph is, so it is difficult to instruct anybody how to make one. Beauty and aesthetics are subjective, and very much in the mind of the beholder.

  Michael Kenna

  Thinking, Mind, Beholder

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• There are many aspects about what and why we photograph: visual pleasure, personal empathy, intellectual stimulation, technical excellence, etc. Serious photographers and artists will try to create works that are original. Over a career period they may develop a singular identity in their images.

  Michael Kenna

  Artist, Careers, Empathy

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• What I was doing for those assignments wasn't always directly tied to what I was doing for myself, but it gave me the space to photograph. I started getting assignments that dealt with my own interests and made some pictures in that direction.

  Peter van Agtmael

  Space, Assignments, Made

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place and time keeps moving on. A photograph might be a moment in time preserved, but the world continues to change around it.

  Errol Morris

  Moving, Taken, World

  Source: collider.com

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• I think, actually, that it's a really fascinating time in history because the development of modern technology and the photographs the satellites were taking from space were mapping the earth in a new way, making us feel like the globe we inhabit is much smaller than previously conceived of, in the human mind.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Thinking, Technology, Space

  Source: collider.com

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• I always loved the idea that a photograph was a memory frozen in time.

  Ed Gass-Donnelly

  Memories, Ideas, Frozen

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• Much like photographs, I also love the idea that ghosts are memories frozen in time. We can be haunted by both just as horrifically. One really becomes a metaphor for the other.

  Ed Gass-Donnelly

  Memories, Ideas, Frozen

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman. That is a huge part of my excitement, the fact that this generation will get such a beautifully-detailed introduction to a hero and icon that has largely lived in a few pages of our history books and in one-dimensional photographs.

  Aisha Hinds

  Hero, Book, Icons

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• I would say digital technology probably doesn't have much impact on us so far. We've seen photographs of people from when they are alive. We see home movies. We have videotapes now and e-mails. When it's going to get interesting is in massively multiplayer online games where you have avatars (online personas). You could actually create an avatar that's semi-autonomous. It could do things for you while you get off the game to run the rest of your life.

  Paul Saffo

  Running, Home, Technology

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8 A.M. and pick us up at 4 P.M. - so between those hours, you'd better find something to do! I sat upstairs in the picture room and went through opera, ballet, and theater books. I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes - they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn't have much of a social life.

  Bette Midler

  Book, Kids, Makeup

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• Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.

  Bette Midler

  Book, World, Saws

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• People put barriers up in your path, and one of those barriers is age. They tell you, "You're too old. You don't photograph so well anymore." I know I don't photograph so well anymore, so what can I do? I can do something different, where it doesn't matter as much how I look.

  Bette Midler

  People, Age, Different

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• I've always made things either paintings, drawing, photographs, or writing. It's all kind of the same thing. It all involves saying more, I guess. It involves separating life, breaking off this chunk that's devoted to making something. There's a lot of pleasure in that, but there can also be a lot of struggle. There's always this fantasy that you could just live life and not have to think about it.

  Moyra Davey

  Struggle, Live Life, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want you anymore, you're just gone and you've been written out of history as effectively as the old Stalinists would write someone else out, take their photograph out of a book.

  Frederic Tuten

  Book, Writing, Editors

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I hate those live action versions of animated cartoons. It ruins everything, the whole point of cartoons is to get away from photographs. I mean it would be stupid to say that cartoons are better than photographs but its true.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Hate, Stupid, Mean

  Source: www.newrafael.com

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• It takes a while for a photograph to mature. That sounds really pretentious, but it takes a time for it to go from here to there.

  Harry Benson

  Mature, Pretentious

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every one of those old songs like "What's My Age Again?" and "All the Small Things" is like a tattoo or a scrapbook or an old photograph. There are just songs that define certain moments in your life. Everyone has a song that got them through a bad breakup or they put on and it made them feel like they wanted to go out and kick the world's ass with their friends on a weekend. Those songs still feel like that to me.

  Mark Hoppus

  Tattoo, Breakup, Song

  Source: www.spin.com

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• When I did some research on child marriage, I realized there were no photographs that showed what it looked like. But the more you dig into something complex, the more you realize how much there is to learn. That's why I've taken so many years to unravel the complexities of the issue and how it continues to be similar and different in different countries and communities.

  Stephanie Sinclair

  Country, Children, Taken

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• You just pray that something is going to hit you like lightning. Like a movie, a book, or a photograph, a painting, something that you can riff on it and learn more about it and explore it, and just go on a journey with it. So lots of times when I choose a theme, I'll also incorporate other things that I'm doing at that period.

  Anna Sui

  Book, Journey, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People think, "Oh my god, you've been doing this job for so many years, it must get boring." It's like, "No, hell no," because I get to sing, I get to dance, I get to be on TV and in films, I get to do merchandising, licensing, show up at conventions, write, or take photographs for my book. There are so many different things going on for me that it never gets boring. It's always fun and interesting.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Fun, Book, Writing

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I can remember how I sang - a little more nasal-y back then. Listening to those old recordings is like seeing a photograph of yourself from 10 years ago. You're wearing what you thought looked cool at the time. You had your hair styled the particular way you thought looked cool. It's an accurate depiction of who you were and what you looked and sounded like at that point in your life. It doesn't necessarily mean that it aged in a way that it feels as cool or sounds as good to you, or says what you thought it said, 10 years later. That's just the nature of growing older.

  Ben Gibbard

  Mean, Listening, Remember

  Source: www.avclub.com

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