#photo

Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love. ↗

— Louis Faurer

#louis-faurer #photographers #photography #art

My career was 100% different from what I intended to do. I thought I'd photograph nature and landscapes but I wound up photographing the changing of the times. ↗

— Charles Moore

#changing #different #i #intended #landscapes

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life. ↗

— Joan Miró

#photography #art

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. ↗

— Helmut Newton

#especially #extreme #famous #french #i

Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways. ↗

— Major Owens

#communications #film #how #information #interested

The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan. ↗

— Christine Pelosi

#donald #hussein #includes #join #photo

Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#moments #photography #life

Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing. ↗

— Duane Michals

#art #invention #nothing #photography #surfaces

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence. ↗

— Man Ray

#existence #i #i do #paint #photograph

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated. ↗

— August Sander

#illuminated #photography #shadows