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  • Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and was worth $28 billion. They even invented the first digital camera. But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram. When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only thirteen people. Where did all those jobs disappear to? And what happened to the wealth that all those middle-class jobs created?

    "Who Owns the Future?". Book by Jaron Lanier, 2013.
  • Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

    "Edward Burtynsky's best shot". Interview with Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2008.
  • I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

  • When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

    Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.
  • The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

  • It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

  • As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

  • A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

  • I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.

  • A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

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

    Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”
  • A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

    "ART; In the Portrait Game, the Photographer Wins" by Vicki Goldberg, www.nytimes.com. March 13, 1994.
  • On digital photography: It's fantastic, but it's not a freebie for anything. You still have to have this (he points to his eyes), and this (points to his heart), and feet.

    Photography   Heart   Eye  
  • There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

    Interview with David Sheff, davidsheff.com. March 1983.
  • 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
  • For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

  • 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 takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

  • Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

    "Photographers on Photography: A Critical Anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons, p. 80, 1966.
  • I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

  • Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

    "Photographers on Photography : A Critical Anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons (p. 80), 1966.
  • All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

    "Richard Avedon and Photo Booth’s New Look" by Maria Lokke, www.newyorker.com. September 11, 2012.
  • While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

    Life   Photography   Eye  
  • A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

  • I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently has numbed down the general quality of photographs.

  • Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.

  • I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

  • One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

    Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press
  • A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

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