I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.
Photography Quotes
“A daguerreotype likeness, do you mean?” asked Phoebe, with less reserve; for, in spite of prejudice, her own youthfulness sprang forward to meet his. “I don’t much like pictures of that sort – they are so hard and stern; besides dodging away from the eye, and trying to escape altogether. They are conscious of looking […]
Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their Craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.
Are you sure there are no hidden cameras up there? (Arizona Representative, while stuffing $55,000 into a gym bag)
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers.
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
Photograph, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.
Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
The camera can photograph thought. It’s better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.
When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I’d like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.
