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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
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.
- Did
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father did advertising photography.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I found photography, I found this other kind of portraiture of black families and black people who were photographing themselves or having themselves photographed in ways they wanted to be seen.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020