Quotes About Photography

For Mia, however, the photographs were only a vague approximation of what she wanted to express, and she soon found herself not only altering the prints – with everything from ballpoint pen to splashes of laundry detergent – but experimenting with the camera itself, bending its limited range to her desires.

With each roll of film, however, she began to understand more and more how a photograph was put together, what it could do and what it could not, just how far you could stretch and twist it. Though she did not know it at the time, all of this was training her to be the photographer she would become.

Some pictures belong to the person who took them. And some belong to the person inside them.

Later, when Moody saw the finished photos, he thought at first that Pearl looked like a delicate fossil, something caught for millennia in the skeleton belly of a prehistoric beast. Then he thought she looked like an angel resting with her wings spread out behind her. And then, after a moment, she looked simply like a girl asleep in a lush green bed, waiting for her lover to lie down beside her.

The photos stirred feelings she couldn't quite frame in words, and this, she decided, must mean they were true works of art.

Photography, at its heart, was about documentation, and he soon understood that for Mia photography was simply a tool, which she used as a painter might use a brush or a knife.

The Starflex, like all Brownies, allowed no focusing. The shuttle cocked automatically to avoid double exposures—which the manual billed as a convenience for the amateur. All you had to do was all that you could do: peek into the viewfinder and press the shutter.

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!

As for the picture — I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

#WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay.

Recently, photography has become... mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.

A photograph gives relief to the banished and absent lover.

Photography is a tough life: you can be taken, framed, exposed, shot, captured, and hung all in the same day.

What you undoubtedly want is about two paragraphs of facts. I've forgotten so many of the facts. I don't remember what is true and what might have been true... As for the picture — I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.

The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.

Letter 84 An elephant with his trunk raised is a ladder to the stars. A breaching whale is a ladder to the bottom of the sea. My photographs are a ladder to my dreams. These letters are ladders to you.

Rien n'est plus trompeur qu'une photo : on croit fixer un moment heureux pour l'éternité alors qu'on ne crée que de la nostalgie

Rien n'est plus trompeur qu'une photo. On croit fixer un moment heureux pour l' éternité alors qu'on ne crée que de la nostalgie. On appuie sur le déclencheur, et hop, une seconde plus tard, l'instant à disparu.

Ništa ne može da prevari više nego fotografija: verujemo da smo ovekove?ili jedan sre?an trenutak, ali smo samo stvorili nostalgiju.

I'd been seen the day before in a neighborhood that wasn't up to revolutionary standards, photographing a pile of garbage cans. It's forbidden. Garbage is not a good souvenir of North Korea. There are so many beautiful things to photograph.

The willful amnesia afflicting the sciences in general contrasts sharply with the importance given to memory by the humanities. Literature, philosophy, politics, and the visual arts, including photography and filmmaking, feed on memory. Practitioners of the humanities need memory to deepen and refine their thinking.

image taking form on old-fashioned photo paper inside a tray of fixer.