“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Cosmic Jam (tour 1995, DVD 2005, 2006)
“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer”
Ansel Adams (1902–1984) American photographer and environmentalist
“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
Ansel Adams (1902–1984) American photographer and environmentalist
Attributed to Adams in E.T. Schoch (2002), The Everything Digital Photography Book (2002) p. 105
David Goldblatt (1930–2018) South African photographer
In an interview with Okwui Enwezor, as quoted in "The Camera Is Not a Machine Gun" http://designobserver.com/article.php?id=10557, Fred Ritchin, 1998
“I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions. Quoted in”
Man Ray (1890–1976) American artist and photographer
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/man-ray/prophet-of-the-avant-garde/510/ PBS episode of American Masters
Ansel Adams (1902–1984) American photographer and environmentalist
Context: I would never apologize for photographing rocks. Rocks can be very beautiful. But, yes, people have asked why I don’t put people into my pictures of the natural scene. I respond, “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” That usually doesn’t go over at all.
Derren Brown (1971) British illusionist
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)