In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form. . . If even a minimal confidence in photography does not survive, it is questionable whether many pictures will have meaning anymore, not only as symbols but as evidence.
Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography.
I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can
Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
The persistent problem in photography is how to look at it.
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.
To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography.
I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because I want that for myself when it's my turn to do my work and I never try and control it or say I'll only do this or I want it like that.
I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.
I really learned a lot from collecting clothes because I got to go back into the history of fashion and fashion photography and jewelry. It changed how I felt about fashion and about what I did forever because I used to look a little bit down on myself for it.
The eye should learn to listen before it looks.
The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.
Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.
Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular. . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.
Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.
Isn't it amazing how photography has advanced without improving.