Quotes About Photography

When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop was. Now you just go and take pictures.

Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.

I treat the camera like a person—I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.

My friend, why should you wish to shorten my life by taking from me my shadow? (To photographer Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy.)

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Every photograph... was a riot of luminous, out-of-focus color.

The photo had been taken by a member of the Séance & Science Brigade about a week or two before the Event that had created Area X. The photographer had gone missing when the border came down. It remained the only photo of Saul Evans they had, except for some shots from twenty years earlier, well before he'd come to the coast.

Too Clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was "digitization" which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. Film, photography, music: dead. "An aesthetic holocaust!

The old pictures were no help; like all good pictures, they hid the truth.

The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. Film, photography, music: dead. An aesthetic holocaust! Bennie knew better than to say this stuff aloud.

What can a photograph mean? It seems to me, now, that it's not so much the image itself as the fact that it was kept. In my own bedroom closet are three large boxes I labeled—late one night, in a dark mood—PLUTONIUM. They are filled with my own keepsakes and very heavy, decades of living distilled down to a few potent sentiments: tenderness, longing, regret.

Each photo is like a novel I can never open, Gary had explained once. I can hold it in my hand and only begin to imagine what's inside -- the lives these people might have led. Sometimes if there was a little clue on the photo - a name, date, or place - he'd try to research it...

I am being as honest with myself as possible, which is harder than it sounds. Who wouldn't rather write down pretty things and pretend they are the truth?' "My photos are a way of telling stories but without the pressure of all those words. I used to think of them as a way to capture everything that's good. Everything my life wasn't. but now I take pictures of all of it: the sad, the disturbing, the ugly.

He did look at his photos and decided he didn't like any of them: all that black and white, all that same old stuff, characters trying to be characters. He said, Are you trying to be a character?

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

More than ever was I convinced that the old way of seeing was inadequate to express this big country of ours, her depth, her height, her unbounded wildness, silences too strong to be broken - nor could ten million cameras, through their mechanical boxes, ever show real Canada. It had to be sensed, passed through live minds, sensed and loved.

Scopes were sending high-res shots

The "tourist" with his camera is an outstanding symbol of an alienated relationship to the world. Being constantly occupied with taking pictures, actually he does not see anything at all, except through the intermediary of the camera. The camera sees for him, and the outcome of his "pleasure" trip is a collection of snapshots, which are the substitute for an experience which he could have had, but did not have.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Rolul artei este s? completeze natura, iar rolul naturii este s? imite arta. Moartea e funcÈ›ia pe care a n?scocit-o natura pentru a imita fotografia. Iar oamenii au inventat fotografia pentru a capta acest formidabil stop-cadru pe care-l reprezint? momentul morÈ›ii. Stau È™i m? întreb ce sens putea avea moartea înainte de Nicephore Niepce.

Photographers are the new Brahmins: we have no volition when they rule us.

I swear I want to be a food model.

Everyone with a camera and a set of draperies runs a portrait studio. Miss