#photograph

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home. ↗

— Matt Damon

#anybody #bored #day #few #get

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

#another #care #core #humanness #make

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

— Paul Strand

#living #photography #really #record #sees

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional. ↗

— Andres Serrano

#photography #some #traditional #use #ways

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#imagination #leave #like #photographs #something

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

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another. ↗

— Robert Smith

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Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers, however, have not understood 'information.' What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do it, the more they prove the victory of the camera over the human being. ↗

— Vilém Flusser

#ethics #photograph #photography #art

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything. ↗

— Ruth Bernhard

#art

It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult. ↗

— Linda Olsson

#painting #photography #simple #writing #art