#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

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

Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference ↗

— Robert Frank

#life

We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#photography #imagination

John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it. ↗

— Joe McNally

#life

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

#love

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. ↗

— David Bailey

#before #everything #extraordinary #good #imagination

I did painting before I did photography. ↗

— David Bailey

#did #i #painting #photography

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it. ↗

— David Bailey

#fingers #i #i do #just #keep

Photography is more about money now but then so are most things. ↗

— David Bailey

#money #more #most #now #photography