Searfoss Photography Quotes

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

This is the way photography can be cruel ... in the sense that it describes everything, even the things we are not necessarily aware we're revealing. ~ Katy Grannan

Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography. ~ Hedi Slimane

Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has 'cast up' in my time or is like to
this art by which even the 'poor' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country? ~ Jane Welsh Carlyle

A picture's worth a thousand words. But a single word can make you think of over a thousand pictures in your mind, over a thousand moments, a thousand memories. ~ Rebecca McNutt

People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still definitely that happening. I'm still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that's really unfair. ~ Cindy Sherman

So, what do you photograph?"
I swallow my wine.
"What?"
"You know – city scapes, nature, portraits, candid shots..."
Boobs. I photograph boobs.
"Uhh... people? ~ Iris Blaire

I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my camera to speak for people who are unable to speak for themselves. ~ Gordon Parks

Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words, placed within a special context, can soar above the intellect and touch subtle reality in a unique way. ~ Paul Caponigro

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

Light is one of the most important factors in photography. ~ Laura Gilpin

No photographer should be blamed when, instead of capturing reality, he tries to show things he has seen only in his imagination. Photography is the youngest art form. All attempts to enlarge its frontiers are important and should be encouraged. ~ Philippe Halsman

It cannot be too plainly stated that it is quite unimportant whether photography produces 'art' or not. Its own basic laws, not the opinions of art critics, will provide the only valid measure of its future worth. ~ Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

I think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances can change people's lives. ~ Jamel Shabazz

In some sense, list-making is to mind-mapping as black and white photography is to color photography. Both are good, both are useful. One gives you precision and clarity; the other gives you a broader spectrum of potential beauty, as well as access to otherwise-unseen features. ~ Anonymous

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

My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people. ~ Jerry Uelsmann

No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph. ~ Bill Brandt

In photography, the issue of the integration of form and content is exceptionally difficult because of the widely held belief that photographs must be a kind of vicarious experience of the subject itself. ~ Peter C Bunnell

I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me. ~ Tyson Chandler

She touched the hearts with her body expressions - she want to take the soul under the moonlight .. ~ Imran Shaikh

Everything looks worse in black and white. ~ Paul Simon

I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see. ~ Trent Parke

I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a landscape that I need to first explore in my mind's eye if I am to make it manifest as an artful image in silver. ~ Paul Caponigro

My studio, nicknamed 'Funny Farm,' is in a hidden location. It's very private. Not only do I create my photography there, but it is also where I write my books and create music. ~ Nikki Sixx

If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves no admiration. The resemblance which he ought to obtain is that of the soul. ~ Auguste Rodin

She had the most beautiful awkwardness ~ Brandon Stanton

When you've had a bad experience, you sometimes feel compelled to recreate it in a way that allows you to control it. ~ Todd Hido

With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important. ~ Aaron Ruell