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#photography

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The brightest light makes the blackest mark.


Henry Holmes Smith


#photography

Pictures put you in front of a reality that most of the times you don't want to see, don't want to know about, don't want to get involved.


Oliviero Toscani


#photography #photography

We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE


Richard Avedon


#photography

Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel?


Duane Michals


#feel #photography #photography

Another unary photograph is the pornographic photograph (I am not saying the erotic photograph: the erotic is a pornographic that has been disturbed, fissured). Nothing more homogeneous than a pornographic photograph. It is always a naive photograph, without intention and without calculation. Like a shop window which shows only one illuminated piece of jewelry, it is completely constituted by the presentation of only one thing: sex: no secondary, untimely object ever manages to half conceal, delay, or distract... A proof a contrario: Mapplethorpe shifts his close-ups of genitalia from the pornographic to the erotic by photographing the fabric of underwear at very close range: the photograph is no longer unary, since I am interested in the texture of the material. The presence (the dynamics) of this blind field is, I believe, what distinguishes the erotic photograph from the pornographic photograph. Pornography ordinarily represents the sexual organs, making them into a motionless object (a fetish), flattered like an idol that does not leave its niche; for me, there is no punctum in the pornographic image; at most it amuses me (and even then, boredom follows quickly). The erotic photograph, on the contrary (and this is its very condition), does not make the sexual organs into a central object; it may very well not show them at all; it takes the spectator outside its frame, and it is there that I animate this photograph and that it animates me.


Roland Barthes


#photography #pornography #punctum #roland-barthes #niche

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.


Mikhail Baryshnikov


#art #forms #i #interested #other

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

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.


Bill Wyman


#charity work #events #i #i do #museums

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.


Ray Harryhausen


#courses #direction #editing #film #high

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


#actually #began #cameras #going #i






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