Photography Quotes - Page 27

• Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge.

  Emmet Gowin

  Creativity, Feelings, Perception

  Emmet Gowin, Princeton University. Art Museum (1998). “Emmet Gowin: aerial photographs”

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• This is the way photography can be cruel... in the sense that it describes everything, even the things we are not necessarily aware we're revealing.

  Katy Grannan

  Way, Revealing

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• Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen.

  Philip Jones Griffiths

  Art, Real, Pursuit

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• [Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.

  Philip Jones Griffiths

  Credit, Branches, Photojournalism

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• Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer and the use he makes of his theme. When photography fails... it is usually because a false separation has been imposed on form and content.

  Sid Grossman

  Cameras, Doe, Purpose

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• [Postmodern photography] implies the exhaustion of the image universe: it suggests that a photographer can find more than enough images already existing in the world without the bother of making new ones.

  Andy Grundberg

  World, Photographer, Enough

  Andy Grundberg (1990). “Crisis of the real: writings on photography, 1974-1989”

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• ...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.

  Andy Grundberg

  Stereotype, Repeats, Ads

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• To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.

  John Gutmann

  Ideas, Painting, Mediums

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• The subject I liked best was painting, but the teachers didn't approve of my experiments and sometimes criticized me in front of the whole class. Maybe my love for photography came from that humiliation: a photo is something that you develop and print yourself, in the dark, and that remains in the dark until you decide to show it.

  Hiroshi Hamaya

  Teacher, Dark, Class

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• What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty of the instant and of these surprising points of view that appear for a brief moment and never return; those are what make photography an art.

  Raoul Hausmann

  Art, Views, Important

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• [Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience.

  Raoul Hausmann

  Communication, Balance, Form

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• Photography is a mechanical device; photomontage is a piece of work done with the products of photography. This entire process forms one whole... If I assemble documents and juxtapose them with intelligence and skill, the effect of agitation and propaganda on the masses will be enormous.

  John Heartfield

  Skills, Done, Pieces

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• As is often said of photography, this photograph is a frozen moment. A frozen moment is not a moment at all.

  Roni Horn

  Frozen, Moments, Said

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• ...photography is made essentially of time. I often think that what we show is a point in time, more than a window onto space.

  Frank Horvat

  Thinking, Space, Window

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• Photography is the art of not pushing the button.

  Frank Horvat

  Art, Buttons, Pushing

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• By trying many different approaches, you may slowly reach the point where you say more about yourself than about the objects or the landscapes or the people you photograph - and this is where photography really interests me.

  Frank Horvat

  People, Trying, Different

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• There's this idea that photography is a kind of testimony and therefore we're forbidden to tell lies with it. I think that's nonsense. Photography isn't testimony.

  Frank Horvat

  Lying, Thinking, Ideas

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• To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.

  Frank Horvat

  Art, Haiku, Visuals

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• To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression.

  Eikoh Hosoe

  Mirrors, Self, Expression

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• What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.

  Graciela Iturbide

  Eye, Synthesis, Language

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• Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and about the surrounding country; the taste strengthening as my successes became greater in proportion to the failures.

  William Henry Jackson

  Country, House, Portraits

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• The key to artistic photography is to work out your own thoughts, by yourselves. Imitation leads to certain disaster. New ideas are always antagonized. Do not mind that. If a thing is good it will survive.

  Gertrude Kasebier

  Keys, Ideas, Work Out

  Barbara L. Michaels, Gertrude Käsebier (1992). “Gertrude Käsebier: the photographer and her photographs”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• I earnestly advise women of artistic tastes to train for the unworked field of modern photography. It seems to be especially adapted to them, and the few who have entered it are meeting with gratifying and profitable success. (1898)

  Gertrude Kasebier

  Taste, Fields, Artistic

  Barbara L. Michaels, Gertrude Käsebier (1992). “Gertrude Käsebier: the photographer and her photographs”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• There is more in art, with an apology to that much abused word, as applied to photography, than startling display lines, on mounts and signs announcing artist Photographer, Artistic Photography Studio, etc., and the lower the standard the more frantic the claim.

  Gertrude Kasebier

  Art, Apology, Etc

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• I wanted [photography] to be more than a document, to be something that is as close as you could possibly be to the subject.

  Chris Killip

  Wanted, Subjects, Documents

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