Mcglockton Photography Quotes

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

There's something really magical about trying to see things in new ways that go beyond, in some sense, the biological human experience. Light-field photography, too, goes beyond the human experience because our eyes work like conventional cameras. ~ Ren Ng

Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who's looking at it. ~ Jay Maisel

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art. ~ David Hockney

There's no such thing as a bad photograph. ~ John Baldessari

He carried a pencil that put a camera to shame. ~ E.B. White

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

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. ~ Roy Ascott

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence. ~ Robert Adams

Students were taught by doing. ~ Minor White

Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something. ~ William Mortensen

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

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are. ~ Ernst Haas

Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make. ~ Chase Jarvis

All aspects of photography interest me and I feel for the female body the same curiosity and the same love as for a landscape, a face or anything else which interests me. In any case, the nude is a form of landscape. There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment, on the mood of the model. ~ Jeanloup Sieff

A man's eye serves as a photography to the invisible, as well as his ear serves as echo to the silence. ~ Machado De Assis

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general. ~ Elliott Erwitt

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

What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing a different piece of information. ~ Sally Mann

What I am or am not wearing does not correlate with my competency as a professional, a mother, or a feminist role model. My clothes don't define me and neither does my nakedness. I define me. ~ Miya Yamanouchi

All along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby. ~ David Hockney

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

People, there's no such thing as, THE BEST CAMERA BRAND, but yes there will always be THE BEST CAMERA AT ANY GIVEN TIME. Technology will change, but not art. ~ Ashraf Saharudin

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning. Actors come into the film and do things you never even imagined. Production designers come in, the director of photography lights it in a way that you never imagined. So, it's always evolving, always exciting. ~ Peter Jackson

I just got this new camera. It's very advanced - you don't even need it. ~ Steven Wright

The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home. ~ Mark Denman

I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, "Here I am, this is what I am like," and the person seeing the picture says in return, 'You know a lot but you don't know half of what I know.' ~ Emmet Gowin

People always say that digital cameras are much more stable than film cameras, but the truth is that digital cameras, or any kind of digital technology, is one of the most unstable things in the world. A film camera can last decades if you know how to look after it, but digital things can break down instantly. A violent storm, a nuclear bomb, even something as minor as a cracked screen or the releasing of newer models, can make a digital product just a block of useless metal. ~ Rebecca McNutt

The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect. ~ Arthur Miller

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures. ~ Harry Callahan

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well. ~ Lewis Carroll

! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life. ~ Sebastiao Salgado

Every traveler should make their own observation. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture. ~ Lisette Model

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

I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it. ~ Mario Testino

Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world. ~ George Santayana