#photography

I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York. ↗

— Ben Shahn

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Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#limited #now #photography #terribly

Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish. ↗

— Ben Shahn

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Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#decision #eye #facility #going #i

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing. ↗

— Layne Staley

#drawing #led #me #music #photography

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth. ↗

— Edward Steichen

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When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#arts #became #cheese #each #explain

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#artist #content #creates #distillation #experience

A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#photography #running

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#camera #photography #artists