Ordinary Quote by Stephen Shore Download Open image “Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.” — Stephen Shore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ordinary Photography Reproduction Verge
In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically]… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum. — Andy Grundberg Copy Share Image
Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase in the… — Albert Renger-Patzsch Copy Share Image
...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
There is indeed something omnivorous about the act of photography. It offers a way of responding to everything about everything. — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ...… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I don't have to have a single point of emphasis in the picture. It can be complex, because it's so detailed that the viewer… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could. Because it's… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs. ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the bounds of… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I have to be reminded, “’It’s your son’s birthday party. Bring a camera.’ And then, when I’m there, ‘Take a picture,’ because it doesn’t… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in doing the same kind of picture over and over again. I pose problems for myself. Sometimes they are aesthetic problems… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph. — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph. — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
A lot of the photography I'm doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram. — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
The danger is that you can wind up doing tourist pictures. I want to see it fresh and see the little bits of everyday… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism. — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
My dream is to play ordinary characters. I have no interest in playing a pretty girl or an NRI girl. — Sobhita Dhulipala Copy Share Image
Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background.… — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis. — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary… — Fred Couples Copy Share Image