Abigail Solomon-Godeau Quotes, Photography Quotes, Art Quotes

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 order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.

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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself

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I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

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An image is better than one thousand words

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I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.

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PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

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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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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

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In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.

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