I've found, through my time at college, that my photography teacher loves it if I use quotes by a photographer, any photographer, to illustarte my point. So, here's a selection of photographer quotes to help aid your study.
"Photography has become one of the principal devices for experiencing something."
Laurence Van der Zee
"Approach the subject on tip-toe, even if it is still life."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
"...the perfect combination of lighting, form, organisation and emotion, all working together to form the perfect image."
Henri Cartier-Bresson on his theory of "the decisive moment"
"I take photographs to report and inform, to raise awareness and promote understanding."
Sebastiao Salgado
"Photography, when in the hands of the ruling classes, can never be trusted to tell the truth."
Bertoldt Brecht
"An image is an accumulation of time, comprehended instantly."
Tapies
"Like so many documents from war, it (the photograph) was chnged with illustartion and then ended up as a symbol."
Susan Meiselas
"The problem is how to select that silver, that thousandth of a second that is meaningful, out of the whole. Which stones will keep their colour once they've been pulled from the water."
Paul Graham
"Art isn't about providing answers is it? It's more about questions - asking thought-provoking, unexpected unarticulated questions."
Paul Graham
"From today, painting is dead!"
Paul Delaroche, on the announcement of the invention of photography in 1839
"It is important to see what is invisible to others."
Robert frank
"If your pictures aren't good enough then you aren't close enough."
Robert Capaa
"No image is just perceived. It is comprehended, interpreted, even inverted, by the individual observer who invests it with a precises siginificance."
Victor Burgin
"The art is what remains when the occasion has faded."
Eve Arnold
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