- Nov 07, 2020
Photography Quotes
Lines on framing the world one shot at a time.
This collection gathers thoughts from photographers on why they picked up a camera in the first place, from using it as reference material for painting to treating Art itself as inseparable from color and composition.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really learned photography.
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I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
- First Time
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It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
- Moment
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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
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One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.
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When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.
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The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
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- Nov 07, 2020