#photography

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#photography #art

What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#photographs #photography #art

I imagine that the essential gesture of the Operator is to surprise something or someone (through the little hole in the camera), and that this gesture is therefore perfect when it is performed unbeknownst to the subject being photographed. From this gesture derive all photographs whose principle (or better whose alibi) is “shock”; for the photographic “shock” consists less in traumatizing than in revealing what was so well hidden that the actor himself was unaware or unconscious of it. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#imagination

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#art

People look at ordinary stuff all day long, so why not make a picture look extraordinary, and give them something new to look at. ↗

— Heath Bouffard

#photography #self #art

So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#always #around #been #comes #design

The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#animation #believe #better #between #computer-generated

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. ↗

— Aaron Siskind

#captured #caught #everything #feeling #film

Contrast is what makes photography interesting. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#interesting #makes #photography

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

— Andres Serrano

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