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Notes: 527 / 2 months ago"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."- Ansel Adams
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Notes: 161 / 1 year ago from frenchtwist"In the realm of the imaginary, the Photograph … represents this very subtle moment where, to tell the truth, I am neither a subject nor object, but rather a subject who feels itself become object: I then live a micro-experience of death (of parenthesis): I become truly a ghost."-
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
from frenchtwist
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Notes: 80 / 1 year ago
![In the field, outside the controlled confines of the studio, a photographer is confronted with a complex web of visual juxtapositions that realign themselves with each step the photographer takes. Take one step and something hidden comes into view; take another and an object in the front now presses up against one in the distance. Take one step and the discription of deep space is clarified; take another and it is obscured.
Dubo, Dubon, Dubonnet, Paris, 1934 by André Kertész
quoted from The Depictive Level: Flatness, The Nature of Photographs by Steven Shore - A Primer. [ Phaidon, 2007, reprint from 2010]
photo from RMN
[this one’s for dear (OvO) and her lovely Analog Visions ]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lux2h6j3b71qztk1wo1_r1_500.jpg)
In the field, outside the controlled confines of the studio, a photographer is confronted with a complex web of visual juxtapositions that realign themselves with each step the photographer takes. Take one step and something hidden comes into view; take another and an object in the front now presses up against one in the distance. Take one step and the discription of deep space is clarified; take another and it is obscured.
Dubo, Dubon, Dubonnet, Paris, 1934 by André Kertész
quoted from The Depictive Level: Flatness, The Nature of Photographs by Steven Shore - A Primer. [ Phaidon, 2007, reprint from 2010]
photo from RMN
[this one’s for dear (OvO) and her lovely Analog Visions ]
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Notes: 41 / 1 year ago"I photograph everything, everywhere and always. Everything!
I shoot life on margin simply because I want to direct attention to certain details on which we have disposition to close our eyes, and not to admit that something like that exists…
However, all that exist and it is part of our life." -
Notes: 40 / 1 year ago"You have to have it in you first, you don’t learn it. The seeing eye is the important thing."- Imogen Cunningham
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Notes: 122 / 1 year ago from proustitute"In the past we listened to photographs. They heard our voice speak.
Alive, active. What had been distance was memory."-Barbara Guest, from “Photographs”
from proustitute
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Notes: 33 / 1 year ago from chagalov
Dorothea Lange on Photography
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
op. cit. in: Nathan Lyons, Photographers on photography: a critical anthology (Prentice-Hall, 1966)
from chagalov
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Notes: 63 / 1 year ago from bookmarklet
“The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively — intuitively — the camera can write poetry.”
Eleanor, Aix-en-Provence, 1958 by Harry Callahan *
from Art Icono, quote from lens culture
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Notes: 76 / 1 year ago"It’s important to take bad pictures. It’s the bad ones that have to do with what you’ve never done before. They can make you recognize something you hadn’t seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again."- Diane Arbus
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Notes: 27 / 1 year ago"most fascinating thing about photography is that it still manages to fascinate us more than anything else."-
thinking out loud, haven’t done it for a while.
Biljana Marinković
[if you ever wondered what my real name is;]
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Notes: 157 / 1 year ago"Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption."- André Bazin (1918–1958), French film critic
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Notes: 111 / 1 year ago"Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be."- Duane Michals
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Notes: 112 / 1 year ago"The photographer chooses oddity, chases it, frames it, develops it, titles it."- From On Photography by Susan Sontag [also]
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Notes: 39 / 1 year ago from bookmarklet
![“…to keep this thing going for a long time, you just have to carry on taking photographs. Photography is my teacher. The main thing is to keep on taking photographs - forever and ever.”
Nobuyoshi Araki [also, more@queering & frenchtwist]
ARAKI , Photography , Sex and Life](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnq3thZGJ21qztk1wo1_500.jpg)
“…to keep this thing going for a long time, you just have to carry on taking photographs. Photography is my teacher. The main thing is to keep on taking photographs - forever and ever.”
Nobuyoshi Araki [also, more@queering & frenchtwist]
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Notes: 10 / 1 year ago from bookmarkletEmbrace and Ordeal of Roses
. “As an intimate friend of Eikoh Hosoe, I have followed him on the journey which led to creation of this work, and I have always respected him as a master of self-discipline - always putting higher plateaus in front of himself. However, it can be said that ‘Embrace’ was an especially challenging plateau which was attained with an extra degree of such mastery.”
These words of Yukio Mishima’s have served as a guide to me throughout my life as a photographer and simultaneously, I have taken them as a form of vow to which I shall adhere until the end.
Eikoh Hosoe
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