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  • Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.

  • The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give more accurate reports on reality (including works of art). Photography is the reality; the real object is often experienced as a letdown.

    Photography   Art   Real  
    Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.129, Macmillan
  • There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

  • 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.

    Photography   Art   Ideas  
  • One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

    Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press
  • That celebrated marriage of science and art, photography, seemed at the time to join together how we look at the world, art, with how we were coming to know it, science.

  • Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.

    Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.
  • The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

    Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press
  • The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the flaws everywhere, in any practice of photography. Traditional genres in particular-journalism, documentary studies, and fine-art photography-have become shells, or forms emptied of meaning.

  • Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography. Other photographers did commercial work, or worked for the government.

  • Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

  • There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

  • Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

  • What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

  • Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.

  • I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself, because I find the world of fine art photography to be pretty silly and pretentious.

    Photography   Art   Silly  
  • To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

    "You Might Be a Cowgirl If . . .: A Guide to Life on the Range" by Jill Charlotte Stanford, Robin L. Corey, Globe Pequot, (p. 111), September 4, 2012.
  • The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

  • Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products of this world have never been widely seen because the artists are often exploring things that are not already coded in general consciousness. It's not that photographers don't want to be famous, it's just that very few of the views from the edges of culture make the mainstream. Ansel Adams was an exception.

  • ... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

    Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.32, Macmillan
  • Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen.

    Photography   Art   Real  
  • A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

  • You don't make a photograph just with a camera

  • Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

    Photography   Art   Doe  
    André Bazin (2005). “What is Cinema?”, p.14, Univ of California Press
  • The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

    Harold Evans (1978). “Editing and Design: Pictures on a page”
  • Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

  • Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

    Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.223, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

    Ansel Adams (1962). “Basic Photo: Artificial-light photography”
  • Photography - the supreme form of travel, of tourism - is the principal modern means for enlarging the world. As a branch of art, photography's enterprise of world enlargement tends to specialize in the subjects felt to be challenging, transgressive. A photograph may be telling us: this too exists. And that. And that. (And it is all 'human.') But what are we to do with this knowledge - if indeed it is knowledge, about, say, the self, about abnormality, about ostracized or clandestine worlds?

    Photography   Art   Mean  
  • It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

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