"Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed."
― Garry Winogrand |
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
“It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.” ― Dorothea Lange |
“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.” “You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.” ― Ansel Adams |
“it’s always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary…it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.”
"I have nothing but respect for people who travel the world to make art and put exotic Indians in front of linen backdrops, but it's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary." "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." "f it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography—the mendacity of photography—it’s got to have some kind of peculiarity in it or it’s not interesting to me." ― Sally Mann |
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