Best Photographs Wisdom
519 Photographs quotes by 341 unique authors
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We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women
— Naomi Wolf
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It was really bizarre, that Sabzian business. You know I had no interest in being photographed before this incident. But then not just Sabzian—many other…
— Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the…
— Seymour Hersh
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A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty is a beautifully written portrait of Eudora Welty and her amazing life. Carolyn J. Brown carries the…
— Unknown Author
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For me, one of the most important aspects of my work is to give people something to dream about, just as I used to dream…
— Grace Coddington
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There is nothing mysterious about space-time. Every speck of matter, every idea, is a space-time event. We cannot experience anything or conceive of anything that…
— Wynn Bullock
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Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill Wittliff's photographs, we…
— Stephen Harrigan
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Photographs are diary entries That's all they can be. Photographs are just documentations of a day's event. At the same time, they drag the past…
— Nobuyoshi Araki
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No, I don't think you're ever an objective observer. By making a frame you're being selective, then you edit the pictures you want published and…
— Mary Ellen Mark
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To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be…
— Nicole Krauss
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I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they develop…
— Harry Callahan
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I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you have…
— Mary Ellen Mark
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I have often been asked what I wanted to prove by my photographs. The answer is, I don’t want to prove anything. They prove to…
— Lisette Model
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The word “photography” can be interpreted as “writing with light” or “drawing with light.” Some photographers are producing beautiful photographs by drawing with light.. Some…
— Philippe Halsman
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If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.
— Gordon Parks
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We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see…
— Sam Abell
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light,…
— Sam Abell
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I want to take some quite incredible photographs that have never been taken before... pictures which are simple and complex at the same time, which…
— Alexander Rodchenko
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People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.
— Louis de Bernieres
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All the publicity, the attention, the interviews, the photographs, were too much for me (after throwing his second no-hitter in 1938).
— Johnny Vander Meer
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We are judged, not by the photographs we take, but by the photographs we show.
— Ted Grant
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Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians learn a more…
— Howard S. Becker
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When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I…
— Minor White
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The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.
— John Szarkowski
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Because each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted. A photograph changes according to the context…
— Susan Sontag
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