#photography

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be. ↗

— Edward Weston

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My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was. ↗

— Kim Weston

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Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives. ↗

— Kim Weston

#except #give #grandfather #growing #growing up

I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself. ↗

— Kim Weston

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Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

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Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images. ↗

— Fay Godwin

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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training. ↗

— Fay Godwin

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But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years. ↗

— David Hockney

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People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art. ↗

— David Hockney

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You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era. ↗

— David Hockney

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