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As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean.
AARON SISKIND

Emphasis Extted Language Mean Photography Shift Vocabulary
T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
BANKSY

Photography Progress Theatre
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
JOHN BERGER

Doe Drawing Image Imitation Life Photograph Photography Rendering Subject Trace Unlike Viewer Visual
I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point around fifteen or sixteen,
ADAM FUSS

Art Attracted Gadget Mean Object Photography Science Subject Technical
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
AARON SISKIND

Altogether Basic Complete Contained New Object Order Photography Self
Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.
ROLAND BARTHES

Camera Living Myself Old Photography Sound
The only nature I’m interested in is my own nature.
AARON SISKIND

Interested Nature Own Photographer Photography
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Alter Change Hold Inspirational Instant Life Photography Take
In any art, you don’t know in advance what you want to say – it’s revealed to you as you say it. That’s the difference between art and illustration.
AARON SISKIND

Advance Art Creativity Difference Illustration Photography Revealed Want
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates.
AARON SCHARF

Art Balancing Difficult Imaginative Meaningful Mechanical Photography School Traditional
I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Duck Photography Water
Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that’s your picture.
AARON SISKIND

Assert Emerge Finally Gradually Photography Picture Relationship Sometimes
It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Enough Life Obvious Photography Picturesque
That’s true, because I’m a photographer now.
LEONARD NIMOY

Myself Photography True
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Blind Camera Photography Reality Stricken Tomorrow
What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I’m not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I’m not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world
GALEN

Activity Body Climb Directly Involve Mean Mind Mountain Nature Observe Philosophy Photograph Photography Some Wood
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
JOHN BERGER

Burden Camera Memories Photography Recieve
That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Being Frame Life Lost Make Mind Photography Picture Subject Wonderful Yourself
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Advantage Artist Expression Photography Poet Poetry Reading Thinking
In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students,
AARON SCHARF

Education Lacking Photography School Strength Technology
Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
JOHN BERGER

Death Flirting Flow Life Photography
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Another Eye Life More Nothing Own Perhaps Photograph Photography Province
Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Audience Cat Large People Photographer Photography Predatory Tell
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

Paper Photography Shade
I’ve been working with photography for many years.
LEONARD NIMOY

Myself Photography Time Work
As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position.
AARON SISKIND

Approach Eye Group Learn Moving Photography Position Relax
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
JOHN BERGER

Burden Camera Forget God Like Memories Photography Relieve Survey Us Yet

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