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Quotes about photography

Photography is a captivating art form that transcends mere image capture, offering a window into the soul of both the subject and the photographer. It represents a unique blend of creativity, technical skill, and emotional expression, allowing individuals to freeze moments in time and share their perspectives with the world. The allure of photography lies in its ability to tell stories without words, evoke emotions, and preserve memories that might otherwise fade away.

People are drawn to quotes about photography because they encapsulate the profound impact that a single image can have. These quotes often resonate with the universal human experience, highlighting the beauty, complexity, and fleeting nature of life. They inspire both seasoned photographers and casual admirers to see the world through a different lens, encouraging them to appreciate the details and nuances that might otherwise go unnoticed.

In a world where visual content is more prevalent than ever, photography remains a powerful medium for connection and communication. Quotes about photography serve as a reminder of the art's enduring significance, sparking inspiration and reflection in those who seek to capture or simply appreciate the world around them.

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The artistry on the show [ Underground] is apparent in each episode. From the riveting writing to the purposeful and precise direction, the masterful work of the DP [Director of Photography] Kevin McKnight and his crew, and the layers and depths each actor goes to to ensure we the audience feel a human connection to these characters led me to sign my name on the dotted line.
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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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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, I had a sense that photography could provide a bridge from the world of science to the world of art, or image. Photography was a means of crossing into a new place I didn't know.
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Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals of the arriviste. Inasmuch as one of those rituals consists of the establishment of suitable ancestry, a search for distinguished bloodlines, it inevitably happens that photographic history and criticism are more concern with notions of tradition and continuity than with those of rupture and change.
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... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated - as though it had created itself.
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Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.
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In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.
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...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?
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There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It's getting very dull now. So, okay photography doesn't tell the truth. So what? Everyone has known this forever.
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Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at the beginning, but a voice. I could finally put into images bottled up feelings of absurdity and alienation - and also joy and delight.
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