Photograph Quotes - Page 38

• The aeroplane should open a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying passengers between adjacent towns, from parcel delivery, taking photographs or conducting schools of flying.

  Harriet Quimby

  Women, School, Flying

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• I don't go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that's reason enough to photograph it.

  Henry Wessel, Jr.

  Photography, Eye, Photographer

  "An uncommon eye for common places / When reality presents itself to Henry Wessel, his 'soft eyes' are available to capture -- and elevate -- the moment". Interview with Jesse Hamlin, www.sfgate.com. February 22, 2007.

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• I could feel myself changing physically. It was like something dropped out of the sky. Seeing her on the fire escape had given me a certain feeling, and then when I saw the photograph of her, it gave me a similar feeling. And I thought that was an incredibly powerful thing - that a photograph could give you a feeling that was similar to a feeling you had in the physical world. Nobody could've told me that. I knew what I was going to do for the rest of my life.

  Henry Wessel, Jr.

  Photography, Powerful, Fire

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• I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into my photographs beyond a mere recording. Yes, I've chosen the camera position, how I'm going to print the negative, the angel of the lens, what I'm going to include and exclude in the composition, so on and so forth. But, I'm still photographing a work of art, and I would rather leave it to others to comment on my work, as I just left it to you.

  Bruce Barnbaum

  Photography, Art, Angel

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• In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have.

  Henry Wessel, Jr.

  Photography, Two, Variables

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• It can happen anytime, anywhere. I mean, you don't have to be in front of stuff that's going to make a good photograph. It's possible anywhere.

  Henry Wessel, Jr.

  Photography, Mean, Stuff

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• Most musicians I know don't just play music on Saturday night. They play music every day. They are always fiddling around, letting the notes lead them from one place to another. Taking still photographs is like that. It is a generative process. It pulls you along.

  Henry Wessel, Jr.

  Photography, Night, Play

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• Emailing a meaningful photograph to someone who is not expecting it can change a relationship forever.

  Nick Kelsh

  Meaningful, Photography, Forever

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• Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.

  A. D. Coleman

  Photography, World, Makers

  A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press

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• The work is primarily subject-driven.  All decisions flow from there. The photographs are all made in response to a unique subject, in particular context, at a specific moment in time. The thoughtful preparedness that defines my working method actually facilitates spontaneity and allows me to embrace surprise. I always have a game plan but view it as merely the jumping off point.

  Gregory Heisler

  Thoughtful, Unique, Jumping

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• Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to gauge its direction. Is it going up, down, sideways? Is it about to collide with a baseball bat? Is it moving at all, or is something on the blind side holding it in place? A single frame didn't mean a thing. Patterns were based on data. With enough datapoints, you could predict just about anything.

  Marcus Sakey

  Baseball, Moving, Mean

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• Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Reality, Want

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• I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't a photograph that others were taking, but I continued to take pictures.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspirational, Squad, White

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• Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

  Daniel Gilbert

  Artist, Hands, Perception

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.85, Vintage

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• Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college; a newspaper photograph of war; a breast self-exam; the tooth fairy; Calvinist parents who beat up their children; a gesture of love; seeing oneself naked over age 50 in a set of bright hotel bathroom mirrors.

  Sharon Olds

  Daughter, Children, Memories

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• Photoshop is useful in many ways but must NEVER be used for the altering of photographs. My assistants and my agency do whatever Photoshop work for me that may be required as it is too complicated for my brain.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Agency, Brain, May

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• With a woman I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a big nose (Jimmy Durante), and emphasized his nose, and he was very pleased with the picture. That could not happen with a woman. The most intelligent woman will reject a portrait if it doesn't flatter her.

  Philippe Halsman

  Character, Intelligent, Men

  "The Mask Falls: Psychological Portraits by Philippe Halsman".

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• Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot make them drop the mask, at least for a moment, so he can capture on his film their real, undistorted personality and character.

  Philippe Halsman

  Real, Character, Self

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• Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data - or a combination of all of the above. a) it will keep your journalistic ‘muscle’ in practice. b) if you’re any good, you’ll get noticed. And bear in mind you can do these things at other places than conventional news organisations. Many businesses, NGOs, arts organisations, public bodies, universities, etc are now publishers of extremely high quality stuff. Good places to practise your craft before moving on.

  Alan Rusbridger

  Art, Moving, Writing

  "I am Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of the Guardian - the news org that broke the story of NSA surveillance of US citizens - AMAA", rebrn.com. July 31, 2013.

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• Our lives look a lot more interesting when they’re filtered through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly, we click the mouse and a machine confirms our sense of mastery.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Sexy, Stars, Interesting

  Jonathan Franzen (2012). “Farther Away: Essays”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.

  Walter Sickert

  Photography, Alcohol, Should

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• There must be a certain look of availability in the women I photograph. I think the woman who gives the appearance of being available is sexually much more exciting than a woman who's completely distant. This sense of availability I find erotic.

  Helmut Newton

  Thinking, Availability, Giving

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• Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world

  Susan Sontag

  Giving, World, Results

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.5, Macmillan

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• A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture

  Susan Sontag

  May, Proof, Given

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: “There is the surface. Now think – or rather feel, intuit – what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way.’ Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy

  Susan Sontag

  Reality, Thinking, Fascination

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.23, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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