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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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I would say, if I had any hobbies, I love photography. I love taking photographs.
- I Am
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I am someone who takes pleasure in exploring the full scale of the medium photography. I am a photographer.
- Memories
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Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.
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For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.
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He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.
- Painting
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Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't.
- Never
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I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
- Things
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I played in bands very very young. I painted; I did photography, all kinds of things.
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You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.
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Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.
- Infinite
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I like the idea of infinite human potential, and a lot of my photography and filmmaking has been focused on that.
- Blessing
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Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.
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If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.
- Job
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I was a dog groomer. I delivered radiators; I was a photography producer. I typed classified ads for many years. It was my longest term job - years of typing classified ads while I was in bands.
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