"To quote out of context is the essence……" — John Szarkowski
"To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft."
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20 Quotes by John Szarkowski
John Szarkowski has 20 quotes on this site.
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Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held…
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Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland,…
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A camera has interesting ideas of its own.
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The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on…
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Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.
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In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter…
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Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion…
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They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped…
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The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the…
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Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.
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A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.
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The simplicity of photography lies in the fact that it is very easy to make a picture. The staggering complexity…
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More Context Quotes
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What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words…
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
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I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.
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Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to…
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I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.
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We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and…
— Christopher Alexander
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much…
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?'…
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If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not…
— Marina Abramovic
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First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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The ACA is an ugly patch on an ugly system - and I don't think it's worth mentioning in the…
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