#photo

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness. ↗

— Paul Strand

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Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees. ↗

— Paul Strand

#living #photography #really #record #sees

Contrast is what makes photography interesting. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#interesting #makes #photography

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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That was why, later on, he began to lose interest in photography: first when colour took over, then when it became plain that the old magic of light-sensitive emulsions was waning, that to the rising generation the enchantment lay in a techne of images without substance, images that could flash through the ether without residing anywhere, that could be sucked into a machine and emerge from it doctored, untrue. He gave up recording the world in photographs then, and transferred his energies to saving the past. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#illusion #photography #age

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ↗

— Ansel Adams

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You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#photography #art

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ↗

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

#photography #art

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#cod #fish #humor #images #inspirational

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#art-appreciation #photography #art