Photographer Quotes - Page 23

Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were.

Looking and seeing are two different things.

Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.

Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day.

A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

All knowledge is self-reflective.

I've learned over the years that when you get a clue to another possibility to follow it through.

The truth is that one is more frequently blessed with ideas while working.

In the arts there are many right answers.

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world.

It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became explicit.

All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.

You cannot accurately remember color.

Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.

You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.

It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three.

When finding the right angle for a shot...'Move your ass.'

Allow yourself to lose your way.

We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.

The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.

You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.