Amount Quote by John Sexton

Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so…

— Clement Greenberg

I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.

— Edward Weston

You can't help putting a lot of yourself into the image and when it's printed the reader can spend hours getting it out.

— Francoise Mouly

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much…

— Bill Brandt

Print publications have to be as luxurious an experience as possible. You have to feel it coming off the page. You have to see…

— Anna Wintour

However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance,…

— Joshua Reynolds

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

— Roland Barthes

For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all…

— John Sexton

I've been very transparent with reporters, but they only want to print mean stuff.

— Louise Linton

I don't try to force-feed it or put any things on the images until I'm making a painting. It's not photorealism. Photorealism's goal is…

— Damian Loeb