Photograph Quotes - Page 36

• I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Vision, Trying, Form

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• What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this. I don't want people to look at them and appreciate the light and the palate of tones. I want them to look inside and see what the pictures represent, and the kind of people I photograph.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Light, People

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• There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and fully.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Way, Moments

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• There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But you give, you receive, you cherish, you are there. When you are really there, you know when you see the picture later what you are seeing.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, People, Giving

  "Salgado takes photos of suffering. But he doesn't stop there" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. November 24, 2004.

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• So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Ideas, Giving

  "In the beginning" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.

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• In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places on the planet and photograph them in the most honest way I know, with my point of view, and of course it is in black and white, because it is the only thing I know how to do.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Black And White, Views

  "In the beginning" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.

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• My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Way, Photographer

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• My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Photography, Women, Shadow

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• People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Photography, Ideas, People

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• A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Photography, Pieces, Littles

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• I feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye sees is its own. What the heart can perceive is a very different matter.

  Gordon Parks

  Heart, Eye, Different

  Gordon Parks (1975). “Moments without proper names”, Studio

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• I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.

  Todd Hido

  Believe, Use, Believe You Can

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• One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

  Minor White

  Doe

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• Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

  Susan Sontag

  Shock, Novel, Shows

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.

  Paul Strand

  Order, Oil, Drawing

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• We don't take photographs with our cameras, we take them with our hearts and our minds. They are a reflection of ourselves...wha t we are and what we think.

  Arnold Newman

  Heart, Reflection, Thinking

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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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• Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.

  Arnold Newman

  Reflection, Two, Shooting

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• After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was attempting to capture in words. I bought a Rolleiflex camera and began to take pictures of objects or structures that were used and abused by human hands

  Wright Morris

  Writing, Used And Abused, Hands

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• It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Single Mom, Peculiar, Moments

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• A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and isolation from everything outside the rectangle, it can create another reality, an emotion that did not exist in the 'true' situation. It's the tension between these two realities that lends it strength.

  Richard Kalvar

  Reality, Two, Silence

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• Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs.

  Martin Parr

  Hurt, Thinking, Vulnerability

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• Two factors thus emerge as requisites of success in the field of creative photography. First, the subject must be photogenic. Second, its re-creation in a photograph must be based upon technical knowledge, guided and supported by artsitic inspiration.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Inspiration, Two

  Andreas Feininger (1953). “Feininger on Photography”

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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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• 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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