Photography Quotes - Page 37

• Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.

  David Hockney

  Depiction, Representation

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

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• Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.

  David Hockney

  Thinking, Europe, Perspective

  "Interview: “John Tusa Interviews David Hockney” (2004)". Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

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• Polaroid, you know, goes against everything that photography is now. You can't make multiples. Only one exists. I love that. By the way, while we've been talking I've now seen a total of three people I know walking on 8th street.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Talking, People, Three

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As a teenager, I loved acting, painting, photography, and making films with my friend's Super 8 camera. But I always loved writing the best. I chose writing even before I knew poetry was available to me.

  Denise Duhamel

  Teenager, Writing, Acting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• That's one of the wonderful things about the whole process of photography - eye contact can be very revealing.

  Derek Ridgers

  Eye, Wonderful, Process

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My biggest challenge was moving from photography to film without losing my way of working - which is very intimate and learning to collaborate with more people, since photography for me is a very solitary process.

  Maya Goded

  Moving, People, Challenges

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances can change people's lives.

  Jamel Shabazz

  War, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm shooting a gangbanger, but as a dignified man. That's pretty much what war photography did: seeing images of soldiers in a dignified way. They might have been killers in Vietnam, but I'm seeing another side of them, and looking at images of the the American soldiers, also the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong - I never saw an enemy.

  Jamel Shabazz

  War, Men, Soldier

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that photography has allowed me to have a voice. I used to stutter, and once I overcame that struggle, it felt good to tell people they were beautiful and special.

  Jamel Shabazz

  Beautiful, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course of my life.

  Jamel Shabazz

  Made, Humbling, Courses

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There was a time in my life that I may not have been that nice, and now I'm in a position to contribute to the education of young people, and teach them to be compassionate, be more loving, more caring, to not use profanity, to not pollute the environment - these are things that I address in my photography. I

  Jamel Shabazz

  Nice, Caring, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim Harrison's book of ghazals. I love film and photography too, so many of my songs are very image rich from those influences.

  Greta Salpeter

  Crush, Song, Book

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• Just someone trying to shoot in 70mm deserves the nomination, and he[Quentin Tarantino] is shooting interiors, like tight interior shots, for that matter. Obviously [Quentin] is the director and demanding the shots, but all credit for the beauty of that film [Hateful Eight] goes to the director of photography.

  Bun B

  Eight, Trying, Credit

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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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• And even being in the middle of it, at the LVMH group with Dior, there are certain parts of it that I'm just not really in, because it's not in me or my nature. The whole scene around it, the events, the photography ... It's never really been my thing. But I don't take a critical position on people who are very much about that either.

  Raf Simons

  People, Groups, Events

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had no real photography experience, thankfully. I consciously took a lot of crowd shots. I was influenced by Seattle photographer Charles Peterson, who always seemed to incorporate fans in his live band shots.

  Bruce Pavitt

  Real, Fans, Band

  "Experiencing Nirvana". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. February 12, 2014.

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• Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself.

  Sune Rose Wagner

  Influence, Bigger, Music Is

  "The Raveonettes". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. February 5, 2008.

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• I've been into photography for years and I do it as often as possible. I'm just trying to develop myself.

  C. J. Wilson

  Years, Trying

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese.

  Bill Jay

  Cheese, Photographer

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• If there is a single factor which separates the best photographers from the wannabes it is the quantity of images which they produce. They seem to be forever shooting. I have watched many of them as they take picture after picture even when they are not photographing. [...] Often these intimate images do not look as though they were taken by the same photographer. And that is their fascination and charm.

  Bill Jay

  Taken, Forever, Fascination

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• I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues as I ever was. Then there is the photographer-me, the one who has a camera in hand and a specific project in mind, and then the world suddenly jumps to life with potential pictures, as if a switch had been thrown in my brain and a different person is looking out of the same eyes.

  Bill Jay

  Eye, Hands, Two

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• I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you can't have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.

  David Hockney

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

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• This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in a more profound way than when I am doing anything else. These sights are ephemeral, fleeting treasures that have been offered to me and to me alone. No other person in the history of the world, anywhere in all of time and space, has been granted this gift to be here in my place. And I am privileged, through the camera, to take this moment away with me. That is why I photograph.

  Bill Jay

  Space, Sight, Profound

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• Evolution in action: First, God said, 'Let there be light.' Then, he created two nude models. Now we have photographers.

  Bill Jay

  Light, Two, Firsts

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• I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home.

  Bill Jay

  Home, Appreciate, Looks

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