Ajamu Photography Quotes

What most artists using photography feel that they need to do is to show that they are serious, that they are not taking snapshots. To point a camera at something does not qualify you as an artist because everybody has done that. ~ Wolfgang Tillmans

There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately. ~ Anton Corbijn

Perhaps why so much of today's photography doesn't grab us or mean anything to our personal lives is that it fails to touch upon the hidden life of the imagination and fantasy, which is hungry for stimulation. ~ Arthur Tress

[David Lean's] images stay with me forever. But what makes them memorable isn't necessarily their beauty. That's just good photography. It's the emotion behind those images that's meant the most to me over the years. It's the way David Lean can put feeling on film. The way he shows a whole landscape of the spirit. For me, that's the real geography of David Lean country. And that's why, in a David Lean movie, there's no such thing as an empty landscape. ~ Martin Scorsese

A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts. ~ Sid Grossman

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. ~ W. H. Auden

For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money. ~ Martin Parr

The camera does not know what it takes; it captures materials with which you reconstruct, not so much what you saw as what you thought you saw. Hence the best photography is aware, mindful, of illusion and uses illusion, permitting and encouraging it - especially unconscious and powerful illusions that are not usually admitted on the scene. ~ Thomas Merton

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions. ~ Mia Wasikowska

Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like a notebook. ~ Mario Giacomelli

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same. ~ Jock Sturges

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. ~ Nigel Dennis

A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any of the best technical photographs, and as creative as any of the best fine-art photographs. [ ... ] I don't want to just be a photo essayist; I'm more interested in single images ... ones that I feel are good enough to stand on their own. ~ Mary Ellen Mark

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize. ~ Susan Sontag

Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography. ~ Ralph Steiner

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world. ~ Susan Sontag

I am not interested in repetition. I don't want to reach the point from where I wouldn't know how to go further. It's good to set limits for oneself, but there comes a moment when we must destroy what we have constructed. ~ Josef Koudelka

I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured by the click of the shutter. ~ Christian Metz

1.Ghost hunting
2.Target practice: rifles and handguns
3.Rock collecting
4.Photography-south Carolina wildlife
5.Soap making
6.Fencing
7.Belly dancing
8.Tie dying
9.Dog agility course training
10.Crawdad racing
11.Bull riding
12.Worm collecting ~ Karla Telega

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles. ~ Deborah Copaken Kogan

You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else
and whichever is better you print. ~ Garry Winogrand

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image. ~ Craig Owens

Photography ... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination. ~ Joan Fontcuberta

I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography. ~ Scoot McNairy

I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane. I spend a lot of time in the darkroom. It's a very solitary, quiet life when I'm not working. ~ Alaina Huffman

I came here in a car like everybody else. In a car filled with shit I thought meant something and shortly thereafter tossed on the street: DVDs, soon to be irrelevant, a box of digital and film cameras for a still-latent photography talent, a copy of On the Road that I couldn't finish, and a Swedish-modern lamp from Walmart. It was a long, dark drive from a place so small you couldn't find it on a generous map...Does anyone come to New York clean? I'm afraid not….Yes, I'd come to escape, but from what? The twin pillars of football and church? The low, faded homes on childless cul-de-sacs? Morning of the Gazette and boxed doughnuts? The sedated, sentimental middle of it? It didn't matter. I would never know exactly, for my life, like most, moved only imperceptibly and definitely forward...Let's say I was born in late June of 2006 when I came over the George Washington Bridge at seven a.m. with the sun circulating and dawning, the sky full of sharp corners of light, before the exhaust rose, before the heat gridlocked in, windows unrolled, radio turned up to some impossibly hopeful pop song, open, open, open. ~ Stephanie Danler

My enthusiasm for joining the New York Film Academy is predicated on my personal explorations into video as well as a sense of responsibility to share my extended experience of photography with committed students in both mediums. ~ Ralph Gibson

Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt. ~ Robert Scoble

Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting. ~ Lee Friedlander

Everything is destined to reappear as simulation. Landscapes as photography, woman as the sexual scenario, thoughts as writing, terrorism as fashion and the media, events as television. Things seem only to exist by virtue of this strange destiny. You wonder whether the world itself isn't just here to serve as advertising copy in some other world.' Jean Baudrillard, ~ Philip K. Dick

I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my
relationship to photography. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment. ~ Galen Rowell

As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not simply the history of photography, who have shaped important directions for the future. ~ Van Deren Coke