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Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
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Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays -
Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
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I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.
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It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
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Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish.
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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.
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Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays -
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
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Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.
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Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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