#photography

I want pictures like these. The kind that can capture a moment, make it real, make it last. I need pictures that do more than reflect. I need pictures that are truth. ↗

— Lisa Magnum

#photography #truth #art

One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#photography

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#aesthetics #consumerism #photography #society #experience

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#film #life #movies #photography #life

Through photography and image I have been afforded the privilege of sharing the stories and myths of people's lives with others. The process for me became self-revelatory. It was a process of soul-making, something all humans are engaged in, no matter their endeavor. I saw a part of myself in each person I photographed. I came to realize, through the alchemical process of living, that each life is important, no matter how little that life seems to offer. ↗

— J. Don Cook

#life #photography #life

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#landscape #often #photographer #photography #supreme

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. ↗

— Dorothea Lange

#altering #holding #instant #life #out

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

When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#definite #going #itself #lends #live