Documentaries Quote by Catherine Opie Download Open image “I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.” — Catherine Opie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Documentaries Kind Photographer Photography Social Twisted
In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker. — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
I'm a documentary image maker, still and moving, because keeping the real world on the agenda is really important at a time when we're… — Tim Hetherington Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of a scene.… — Beat Streuli Copy Share Image
Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through layers of manipulation, abstraction, and intervention. But now, it is very much on the surface. I like this honesty about its dishonesty. Every photograph has many truths and none. Photographs are ambiguous, no matter how seemingly scientific they… — Taryn Simon Copy Share
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history. — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera. — David Hurn Copy Share Image
I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them. — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
I really love to drive. It's really hard for me to be a passenger, even though I get to look around a little bit… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it. — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history. — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian. — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.' — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up. — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations. — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James Brown recently; and, oddly, I found a lot in common between Jobs and Brown. Jobs was also a fantastic performer, put on an extraordinary live show at his product launches, but he could also be ruthless, cruel and… — Alex Gibney Copy Share
The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's in the photograph - a kind of rhetorical device or rhetorical strategy. It's always felt very natural to me, because I want a person to end up thinking about the world, and to think about it… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share
Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
I'm in school every day. It depends on what it is that you do with all that free time when I'm not on the… — MC Lyte Copy Share Image
If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them. — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
