Picture Taking Quotes

• We have become a nation of Kodachrome, Nikon, Instamatic addicts. But we haven't yet developed a clear idea of the ethics of picture-taking. ... Where do we get the right to bring other people home in a canister? Where did we lose the right to control our image?

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  Ellen Goodman

  Photography   Home   Picture Taking  

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• For me there's several components to picture-taking and it starts with my goals as an artist. It's capturing I guess the inner life of my subject and then it is giving them their idealized version of themselves.

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  Carol Friedman

  Artist   Picture Taking   Giving  

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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• Picture-taking is an ensemble art-like theater.

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  Ansel Elgort

  Art   Picture Taking   Ensemble  

  "Breaking Out: Ansel Elgort Goes from High School to Off Broadway in Regrets" by Liesl Schillinger, www.vogue.com. March 28, 2012.

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• What I feel is that the picture-taking process, anyway a greater part of it, is an intuitive thing. You can't go out and logically plan a picture, but when you come back, reason then takes over and verifies or rejects whatever you've done. So that's why I say that reason and intuition are not in conflict-they strengthen each other.

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  Wynn Bullock

  Photography   Picture Taking   Intuition  

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• Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the whole point. We're doing this to create a kind of sentimental past for people in decades to come. It's their past, their history we're inventing here. And it's not how I look now that matters. It's how I'll look in twenty-five years as clothing and faces change, as photographs change. The deeper I pass into death, the more powerful my picture becomes. Isn't this why picture-taking is so ceremonial? It's like a wake. And I'm the actor made up for the laying-out.

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  Don DeLillo

  Powerful   Mean   Past  

  Don DeLillo (2016). “Mao II”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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