Dominey Photography Quotes

A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture. ~ Charlie Waite

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is. ~ Chuck Close

I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography. ~ Sebastiao Salgado

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer. ~ Eve Arnold

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point. ~ John Sexton

[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain fetishism of mine: for this 'me' which like knowledge, which nourishes a kind of amorous preference for it. In the same way, I like certain biographical features which, in a writer's life, delight me as much as certain photographs; I have called these features 'biographemes'; Photography has the same relation to History that the biographeme has to biography. ~ Roland Barthes

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth. ~ Edward Steichen

Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine. ~ Berenice Abbott

But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do. ~ Drew Carey

As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure. ~ Julian Lennon

Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera. ~ Eliot Porter

There was a time in my life that I may not have been that nice, and now I'm in a position to contribute to the education of young people, and teach them to be compassionate, be more loving, more caring, to not use profanity, to not pollute the environment - these are things that I address in my photography. I ~ Jamel Shabazz

I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture ... but it is an engagement with a problem rather than a medium. ~ Sarah Charlesworth

The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don't know what to do with it. ~ Edward Weston

In order to know someone who is at some level unknowable, you must leave yourself wide open. If you don't, you foreclose the possibility of learning something critical about this person you need, your parent, the person upon whom your survival depends. It's like time-lapse photography; your lens at maximum aperture in order to capture something fleeting and elusive. The problem becomes one of calibration. How to protect yourself in the process. How to capture something without going blind. ~ Camilla Gibb

Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me. ~ Thomas Leuthard

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art. ~ Jean-Francois Chevrier

Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back. ~ Jay Maisel

Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible? ~ Duane Michals

The word photography comes from two ancient Greek words: photo for "light" and graph for "drawing." "Drawing with light" is a way of describing photography. ~ Vishal Diwan

When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can. ~ D.H. Lawrence

The more remote or exotic the place, the more likely we are to have full frontal views of the dead and dying. ~ Susan Sontag

Photography wasn't even considered part of the art world until fairly recently. I find it ironic that some people in the world of fine-art photography consider digital photography as somehow "less artistic," when it is merely a change in process, not vision. The debates will always be there, but your vision is yours alone. ~ Richard Olsenius

As a photographer, I'm interested in how dramatically photography has changed. Most images are not real or are composites, and most of us don't even know it anymore. ~ David Allee

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work. ~ William Klein

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. ~ Diane Arbus

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art. ~ Alfred Stieglitz

I consider myself fortunate that photography exists, because otherwise I'd be stuck in the tragedy of ephemeralness that can come with installation art. ~ Sandy Skoglund

The beauty of Photography is not in what you see, its art lies in your dreams. ~ Biju Karakkonam, Nature And Wildlife Photographer

Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses. ~ Michael Langford

It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it. ~ David Sedaris

You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering ... ~ Zana Briski

I wasn't very ambitious. I think that's the solution. I just took things as they came. I wouldn't say I didn't have any problem, but I didn't care. I didn't think I was going to save the world by doing photography as some of these people do. I was just having a good time doing it, and so I still had a good time no matter what I had to photograph. ~ Imogen Cunningham

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

Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with the fairy-tale world of childhood, a never-ending journey through great and small, through variations and the realm of illusions and appearances, a labyrinthine and specular place of multitudes and simulation. ~ Luigi Ghirri

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. ~ Susan Sontag

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography. ~ Bill Wyman

I always feel it's necessary to look at my images from two distances. Here is my criterion: If I can look at it from a distance and then come up close but find nothing more to see, it's printed too large. It's not giving me any new information when I come up to it. ~ Bruce Barnbaum

I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living. ~ Sally Mann

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century. ~ John Rothenstein

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world. ~ Aaron Huey

My style hasn't changed much in all these sixty years. I still use, most of the time, existing light and try not to push people around. I have to be as much a diplomat as a photographer. People don't often take me seriously because I carry so little equipment and make so little fuss ... I never carried a lot of equipment. My motto has always been, "Keep it simple". ~ Alfred Eisenstaedt

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

I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on ground glass, the finished print previsioned completely in every detail of texture, movement, proportion, before exposure - the shutter's release automatically and finally fixes my conception, allowing no after manipulation - the ultimate end, the print, is but a duplication of all that I saw and felt through my camera. ~ Edward Weston