Accidents Quote by Taryn Simon Download Open image “Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.” — Taryn Simon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accidents Bounds Failure History Mistake Photography
A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories. — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
For a photographer, it's a necessity that you can shoot stuff magically. Accidents are necessary, but after I take the photograph, it's not over.… — Rinko Kawauchi Copy Share Image
Photography can be a way into worlds and memories that words sometimes fail to convey. — Stacy Martin Copy Share Image
Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate… — George Eastman Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a mistake--we do it! There's no such thing as an accident--we do it!. — Lester Levenson Copy Share Image
That's one of the troubles of photography; the implication that what you have in that photograph is the way it is, and of course… — Eugene Richards Copy Share Image
Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me. — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy. — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
You come to the photograph as an aesthetic object with no context... Then you step in and read the text and then out again… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal… — Taryn Simon 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… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information. — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
I'm designing a seductive frame to attract an audience to a subject they would otherwise ignore. And that's what I do in all of… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again,… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I'm drawn to… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
I made out with a homeless guy by accident. I had no idea -- he was really tan, he had no shoes on. I… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can… — Annie Ernaux Copy Share Image
In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
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