It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....
Kate MortonTag: art past photography
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
Susan SontagTag: photography
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A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.
Diane ArbusTag: art photography secrets secrecy
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
Henri Cartier-BressonTag: photography artist camera
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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.
Dorothea LangeTag: perception photography perspective vision cameras
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Ansel AdamsTag: art photography
All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
Susan SontagTag: photography time
A recurrent question about photography is how much self expression it allows the photographer. There are two standard positions, each corresponding to a different location oh photographic skill. The opposition is neatly summed up in Bioy Casares’s novel The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata (1989). The hero Nicolasito Almanza declares: ‘I am convinced that all of photography depends on the moment we press the release […] I believe that you’re a photographer if you know exactly when to press the release.’ In making this declaration he is responding to the opinion expressed by Mr Gruter, owner of a photographic laboratory: ‘[…] sometimes I wonder if the true work of the photographer doesn’t begin in the dark room, amid the trays and the enlarger.
Clive ScottTag: talent photography work expression
I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.
Rosie O'DonnellTag: life photography film cameras movies
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.
Richard AvedonTag: truth art photography perspective portraits accuracy inaacuracy portraiture
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