Briamo Photography Quotes

Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom. ~ John Sexton

Let the pictures do the talking! ~ Ken Oosterbroek

One thing that struck me early is that you don't put into a photograph what's going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in. ~ Diane Arbus

We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Often something looks, or is felt to look, "better" in a photograph. Indeed, it is one of the functions of photography to improve the normal appearance of things. (Hence, one is always disappointed by a photograph that is not flattering.) ~ Susan Sontag

When photography was invented, people had to make room in their minds for the idea that the dead would always be visible. ~ Vicki Goldberg

A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about. ~ Richard Avedon

The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it. ~ Elliott Erwitt

It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I found people open and understanding of the importance and beauty of filmic storytelling. I never had to explain why Jake Bryant, my Director of Photography, and I were climbing up a ladder to get a high shot, or running ahead to get an arrival shot, or filming weeks after weeks, months after months, collecting so much material. The process was respected and honored. ~ Pietra Brettkelly

With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past. ~ Ren Ng

Most of the views are visible to everyone but only those who had passion can see it beyond. ~ Namie Richards

In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make the pictures. ~ John Szarkowski

Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be used for inspiration and not for imitation. These works should be something to be built upon, not to be repeated. ~ Alexey Brodovitch

Typography can be as exciting as illustration and photography. ~ Herb Lubalin

Why you like photography so much? Because it's just the camera and me showing everyone else what we can see. It's telling stories. ~ Lindsey Kelk

Although I get a lot of ideas from things that have happened in my life, I see the final product as a place where my imagination meets my experience. What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems. ~ Laurel Nakadate

The important thing is not the camera but the eye. ~ Alfred Eisenstaedt

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

Mr. Marsham was born (in 1822) into a world that was still essentially medieval - a place of candlelight, medicinal leeches, travel at walking pace, news from afar that was always weeks or months old - and lived to see the introduction of one marvel after another: steamships and speeding trains, telegraphy, photography, anesthesia, indoor plumbing, gas lighting, antisepsis in medicine, refrigeration, telephones, electric lights, recorded music, cars and planes, skyscrapers, motion pictures, radio, and literally tens of thousands of tiny things more, from mass-produced bars of soap to push-along lawn mowers. ~ Bill Bryson

I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness. ~ Todd Walker

Photography ruins marriages, and I've been married three times - so there's a downside to it as well. ~ Jack Welpott

In the final analysis, photography ... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun. ~ Abigail Solomon-Godeau

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. ~ Sydney Pollack

Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past. ~ David DuChemin

Only photography has been able to divide human life
into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence. ~ Eadweard Muybridge

The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor. ~ Alfred Stieglitz

The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography. ~ Chase Jarvis

We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller) ~ William Eggleston

For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about. ~ David Hurn