Photograph Quotes - Page 33

• In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.

  Sam Abell

  Mistake, Spirit, Photographer

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• I want to take some quite incredible photographs that have never been taken before... pictures which are simple and complex at the same time, which will amaze and overwhelm people ... I must achieve this so that photography can begin to be considered a form of art.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Photography, Art, Taken

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• The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the reader’s eye, this will be misunderstood by most of that minority which does not wholly ignore it. In the interests, however, of the history and future of photography, that risk seems irrelevant, and this flat statement necessary.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Independent, Eye

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• People photograph everything and nothing - no interaction is deemed to have actually happened unless somebody has a picture of it.

  Hugh Jackman

  People, Interaction, Happened

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• My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of trouble or change in order to find the ground to stand on in the change. I was coming out of a melancholic phase. This was taken when I was traveling extensively, on the road from hotel to hotel. You get displaced, and then taking self-portraits becomes a way of hanging on to yourself.

  Nan Goldin

  Taken, Self, Order

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• Americans don't like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their towns. And really, why strain yourself when so many wonderful names already exist in the world?The entrance to the town of Moscow is shown in the photograph. That's right, an absolutely authentic Moscow, just in the state of Ohio, not in the USSR in Moscow province.There's another Moscow in some other state, and yet another Moscow in a third state. On the whole, every state has the absolute right to have its very own Moscow.

  Ilya Ilf

  Stupid, Ohio, Names

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• I just get the will to do it.  I don’t plan a photograph in advance…  I work by impulse.  No philosophy.  No ideas.  Not by the head but by the eyes.  Eventually inspiration comes-instinct is the same as inspiration, and eventually it comes.

  Manuel Alvarez Bravo

  Photography, Philosophy, Inspiration

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• All the publicity, the attention, the interviews, the photographs, were too much for me (after throwing his second no-hitter in 1938).

  Johnny Vander Meer

  Attention, Too Much, Publicity

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• When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve from showing to being.

  Jacob Aue Sobol

  Trying, Use, Instinct

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• A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

  Tomas Transtromer

  Shadow, Bigger, Backgrounds

  "Following Words Through a Labyrinth" by David Orr, www.nytimes.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity.

  Michael Bassey

  Eye, Enemy, Faces

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• My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of accepting, while I can be even more complex in the photographs and people can usually accept them within the framework of their own limitations or lack of limitations – there is no dictionary meaning… they can look up for the photographic image and allow it to confuse them.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Writing, Differences, People

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• I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.

  Matt Roper

  Dad, Army, Funeral

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• Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaningness. If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

  Paul Strand

  Photography, Mean, People

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• A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Photographer, Thousand

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• Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

  Martin Parr

  Hypocrisy, Criticism, Tourists

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• I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

  Martin Parr

  Who I Am, People, Funeral

  "As we live and breathe: your photos of funerals and smoking". Interview with Theresa Malone, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2013.

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• I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.

  Martin Parr

  Thinking, Groups, Individual

  "Off the Shelf: Martin Parr’s 'Small World'" by Rollo Romig, www.newyorker.com. April 7, 2010.

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• I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like the people who commission those photographs with cruel arrows to go on the covers of the celebrity magazines. The photographs show botched plastic surgery, raging eczema, weight gain and horrible clothes for maximum schadenfreude.

  Peter York

  Caring, Clothes, Arrows

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• No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.

  J. Carter Brown

  Garden, Smell, Giving

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• I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.

  August Sander

  Hate, People, Age

  August Sander (1996). “August Sander: "In photography there are no unexplained shadows!" : an exhibition organised by the August Sander Archive, Kulturstiftung Stadtsparkasse, Cologne, and shown at the National Portrait Gallery, London”, Natl Portrait Gallery Pubns

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• Practice the mechanics of making photographs until it becomes second nature.

  Fred Picker

  Photography, Practice, Mechanic

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• When a person looks at a photograph you've taken, they will always think of themselves, their own life experience. They will relate your photograph to their memories. That interplay is where a picture comes alive and grows into something. They function like invitations.

  Jason Fulford

  Photography, Memories, Taken

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• What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.

  Agnes Denes

  Landscape, Lasts, Canvas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and in terms of the quality of the photograph it's a great photograph, but in terms of imagery it's unacceptable, and I like that contradiction.

  Damien Hirst

  Photography, Taken, Light

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