“Photography is not only an art, it is an international language that everybody understands.”
Amasi Program, Sharjah TV Interview (March 1, 2016)
A collection of quotes on the topic of photography, likeness, art, photograph.
“Photography is not only an art, it is an international language that everybody understands.”
Amasi Program, Sharjah TV Interview (March 1, 2016)
“Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.”
Art of the 20th century, Part 1 by Karl Ruhrberg, Klaus Honnef, Manfred Schneckenburger, Ingo F. Walther, Christiane Fricke (2000) p. 627.
Source: Henri Cartier-Bresson: Interviews and Conversations, 1951-1998, Only Geometricians May Enter: Interview with Yves Bourde (1974), p. 62
“I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.”
Source: Anagrams
Aaron Sussman, cited in: The Amateur Photographer's Handbook, (1973), p. vi
Sussman, Aaron. The Amateur Photographer's Handbook. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1973.
Context: Photography is more than a means of recording the obvious. It is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever, whether it be a face or a flower, a place or a thing, a day or a moment. The camera is a perfect companion. It makes no demands, imposes no obligations. It becomes your notebook and your reference library, your microscope and your telescope. It sees what you are too lazy or too careless to notice, and it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
“Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
Alfred Stieglitz, as quoted in The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940, M. Orvell (1989). p. 220
Variant: There is a reality — so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. That's what I'm trying to get down in photography.
“Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Source: Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.”
Le Petit Soldat (film) (direction and screenplay, 1960).
[variation] Cinema is truth at twenty-four frames a second.
Interview with Martin Gayford, " 'Photography is crumbling,' " http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/05/18/bahock18.xml The Telegraph, (18 May 2004)
2000s
1984 interview, quoted in The Burlington Free Press (6 May 1990), p. 5 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/201083677/
1980's, I don't necessarily desire a perfect photography,' 1981
Review http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=669 of Psycho (1960).
Three-and-a-half star reviews
Source: Ten questions for photographer Hélène Binet http://uk.phaidon.com/agenda/photography/articles/2012/december/06/ten-questions-for-photographer-helene-binet/, Phaidon Press, 6 December 2012.
Robert Frank, in: Nathan Lyons, Photographers on photography: a critical anthology, (1966), p. 66
Tara Reid Is Not a Loser https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wd47d5/tara-reid-is-not-a-loser-954 (August 30 2014)
Venom and Eternity (1951), Danielle's Monologue
Source: 1940s, Economic Analysis, 1941, p. xv
New millennium, Photography, or the Writing of Light, (2000)
Homage to the square' (1964), Oral history interview with Josef Albers' (1968)
A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), To Plan or Not To Plan
Source: 1980's, Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art world of Our Time, 1980, pp. 55-56 : Autobiographic notes
Source: Henri Cartier-Bresson: Interviews and Conversations, 1951-1998, To Seize Life: Interview with Yvonne Baby (1961), p. 44
Source: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, How expression may be given to a picture, p. 34
Source: Henri Cartier-Bresson: Interviews and Conversations, 1951-1998, Photographing Is Nothing, Looking Is Everything! Interview with Philippe Boegner (1989), p. 114
Source: Henri Cartier-Bresson: Interviews and Conversations, 1951-1998, The Main Thing Is Looking: Interview with Alain Desvergnes (1979), p. 75
Source: Part II : Practical Pictorial Photography, p. 1
Source: Art, 1912, Ch. VII. Of Yesterday and of to-day, p. 121
Richard Long in: Ben Tufnell (ed.), Richard Long: Selected Statements & Interviews, London 2007, p. 39; Cited in: " Richard Long: A Line Made by Walking 1967 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/long-a-line-made-by-walking-ar00142/text-summary," at Tate.org
2000s
2001 - 2010, Isa Genzken in conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans' (2003)
Source: Part II : Practical Pictorial Photography, Fidelity to nature and justifiable untruth, p. 14
“As a rule, in pictorial photography a long-focus lens will on the whole be most satisfactory.”
Source: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, The use of the lens in pictorial work, p. 58
'Is Photography a Failure?', Alfred Stieglitz, 'Sun: 5.', March 14, 1922; as quoted on Wikipedia
Bio! TY Bello http://www.pulse.ng/entertainment/music/bio-ty-bello-id2789473.html
In Artists on Art – from the 14th – 20th centuries, ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, p. 233
quote circa 1853, in which Delacroix relates painting to theater from the view of the visitor / spectator
1831 - 1863
Source: The Romantic Rebellion (1973), Ch. 13: Degas
Source: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Printing methods and their bearing on pictorial photography, p. 73
As quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 189
American Photo (January/February 2000), p. 90
Source: Henri Cartier-Bresson: Interviews and Conversations, 1951-1998, We Always Talk Too Much: Conversation with Pierre Assouline (1994), p. 132
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)
“Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.”
Alfred Stieglitz (1887), in the American Annual of Photography 1897.
Wall and Piece (2005)
Source: Henri Cartier-Bresson: Interviews and Conversations, 1951-1998, Photographing Is Nothing, Looking Is Everything! Interview with Philippe Boegner (1989), p. 113
Source: Ten questions for photographer Hélène Binet http://uk.phaidon.com/agenda/photography/articles/2012/december/06/ten-questions-for-photographer-helene-binet/, Phaidon Press, 6 December 2012.
Quoted in "'I've learnt to speak my mind': 10 excerpts from Tony Abbott's climate change speech in London'" http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/ive-learnt-to-speak-my-mind-ten-excerpts-from-tony-abbotts-climate-change-speech-in-london-20171009-gyxk92.html, Sydney Morning Herald, October 10, 2017
2017
after 2000, Gerhard Richter: An Artist Beyond Isms' (2002)
Life of Pitt (1891), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Methods - The practical application of means to end, p. 28
Source: Part II : Practical Pictorial Photography, p. 2
Source: Beyond the Obvious: Photography for Healing (2014), p. 3
Two Years Later: Mexico City Return
Queer: A Novel (1985)
Edward Steichen (1967),, cited in: National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Carolyn Kinder Carr, National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) (2003). Americans: paintings and photographs from the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, Deel 3. p. 207
New millennium, Photography, or the Writing of Light, (2000)
David Armstrong, Theo Farrell, Bice Maiguashca, Governance and resistance in world politics http://books.google.pl/books?id=Xs6V0PLaEiEC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, Cambridge University Press, 2003, p. 68.
“I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for truth my obsession”
From Adams to Stieglitz' (1990)
Source: 'Alfred Stieglitz' Photo notes, August 1946, p. 65
My First Roll Of Film http://www.walterwick.com/blog/2016/3/2/my-first-roll-of-film-1 (March 2, 2016)
Source: Henri Cartier-Bresson: Interviews and Conversations, 1951-1998, Only Geometricians May Enter: Interview with Yves Bourde (1974), p. 65
'How I came to Photograph Clouds', Alfred Stieglitz, in 'Amateur Photographer and Photography', (19 September 1923): 255.
about his new subject: 'clouds' in his long series 'Equivalents' he started in 1922
Source: Ten questions for photographer Hélène Binet http://uk.phaidon.com/agenda/photography/articles/2012/december/06/ten-questions-for-photographer-helene-binet/, Phaidon Press, 6 December 2012.
"Sense and Sensibility"
The Common Sense of Science (1951)
2001 - 2010, Isa Genzken in conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans' (2003)
Quotes of Sol Lewitt, "Sol LeWitt by Saul Ostrow," 2003
Quoted in Time Magazine, "To Catch the Instant" http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,874339,00.html, 7 April 1961
Source: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Printing the picture and controlling its formation, p. 79
"A Personal Credo" (1943), published in American Annual of Photography (1944), reprinted in Nathan Lyons, editor, Photographers on Photography (1966), reprinted in Vicki Goldberg, editor, Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present (1988)
Kenneth Noland, p. 23
Conversation with Karen Wilkin' (1986-1988)
Deschin, Jacob. "Nature as it is". New York Times (1857-Current file); Feb 3, 1952; Proquest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2002) pg. X14
Vito Acconci interview, in The Art Newspaper, Art Basel edition, December 5, 2012.
Joseph Nechvatal. " Painting and Philosophy: An Assessment http://hyperallergic.com/90646/painting-and-philosophy-an-assessment/," at hyperallergic.com, October 28, 2013
“Photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing.”
In Plato's Cave, p. 8 http://books.google.com/books?id=B8DktTyeRNkC&q=%22Photography+has+become+almost+as+widely+practiced+an+amusement+as+sex+and+dancing%22&pg=PA8#v=onepage
Previously published as Photography http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1973/oct/18/photography/ in The New York Review of Books, 18 October 1973
On Photography (1977)
American Photo (January/February 2000), p. 90
Context: Growing up, I was surrounded by Nazi imagery, like everybody in Germany, and for a boy obsessed with photography it left an indelible impression on me. Later this influence was tempered by Brassaï and Dr. Erich Salomon. My love of photography at night started with m early experience of … the Brelin undergrund stations. Even today I love photographing by the light of street lamps or in the glare of my flash.
कला र जीवन (Art and Life)
Art and Life
Context: I think human arts depend on the imaginative truths. The straight forward illustration of practicality cannot take the form of Art, not is photography any Art in my opinion.
Aaron Sussman, cited in: The Amateur Photographer's Handbook, (1973), p. vi
Sussman, Aaron. The Amateur Photographer's Handbook. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1973.
Sangeetha Seshagiri, in "Marthanda Varma, Titular Head of Travancore Royal Family, Passes Away (16 December 2013)"