The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
Photography Quotes
When Jack London had his portrait made by the noted San Francisco photographer Arnold Genthe, London began the encounter with effusive praise for the photographic art of his friend and fellow Bohemian, Genthe. “You must have a wonderful camera… It must be the best camera in the world… You must show me your camera.” Genthe […]
What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn’t resemble us.
I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.
There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ‘cast up’ in my time – this art by which even the ‘poor’ can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
