#photography

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. ↗

— Walker Evans

#creativity #photography #art

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

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point. ↗

— John Sexton

#ansel #asking #california #call #coming

I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck. ↗

— Henry Winkler

#credits #director #driveway #how #i

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts. ↗

— Garry Winogrand

#around #change #edges #facts #finding

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#time #art

Keep shooting. It helps the model's confidence. Flashing strobes are like applause. ↗

— A.K. Nicholas

#nude #photography #beauty

All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library. ↗

— Rivera Sun

#beauty #books #inspiration #journalism #library

Among the things she said: "Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist ... such as personality, patience and intuition. The sitter ought to be the predominating factor in a successful portrait. Men portraitist are apt to forget this; they are inclined to lose the sitter in a maze of technique luxuriating in the cleverness and beauty of their own medium. ↗

— Whitney Otto

#women #beauty