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The realists do not take the photograph for a ‘copy’ of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.
ROLAND BARTHES

Art Magic Photography Reality
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Camera Creativity Inspirational Instrument People Photography Teaching
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
Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
EDWARD WESTON

Car Photography Yards
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
AARON SISKIND

Documentary Essential Men Photography Worship Wrong
I’ve enjoyed photography, ever since I was a teenager, and I’m still at it. I’ve had shows in various cities, around the country, and I have a number of pieces in permanent collections in museums that I’m very proud of.
LEONARD NIMOY

Collection Country Enjoyment Myself Photography Pieces Proud Teen
Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.
BEN SHAHN

Decision Eye Photography
Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.
BARBARA KRUGER

Hobbies Magic Photography
Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Appear Fight Photography State Sunday Today
The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.
AARON SISKIND

Business Consist Element Objective Photography Simple Term Together
A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Documentaries Factual Life Photography
To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Ahead Along False Know Limit Look Mean Own Photographer Photography Preconception Put
Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.
AARON HUEY

Assumption Photography Power World
The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Photographer Photography Unattainable Undertaking Visual
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Blind Camera Photography Realy Styricken Tomorrow Use
Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Eye Life More Phenomenon Photography Psychological
Photography was a means of crossing into a new place I didn’t know.
ADAM FUSS

Cross Crossing Mean Mew Photography Place
I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
BEN AFFLECK

Beginning Myself Photography Writing
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism.
AARON SISKIND

Art Documentary Man Mean Photography Picture Tradition Viewer
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Animal Love Making Photography
It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term-selectivity.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Penetrate Photography Selectivity Simple Term
Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
JOHN STUART MILL

Brief Complex Luck Photography
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
A. D. COLEMAN

Adjust Blur Fact Focus Frame Lens Maker Photography Simple World
What to me is anathema – a corpse-like, outmoded hangover – is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium. … Is not photography good enough in itself, that it must be made to look like something else, supposedly superior?
BERENICE ABBOTT

Hangover Looks Photography
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Past Photographer Photography
Questioning the idea of Art with a capital ‘A’, photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.
AARON SCHARF

Art Assume Capital Idea Inevitably Photography Questioning Stature
I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
BILL WYMAN

Hobbies Interesting Photography

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