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03/07/2003 01:52:28 PM · #1 |
| Click Here - who (or what) is your favorite? |
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03/07/2003 02:06:46 PM · #2 |
It's not actually on there, and it doesn't specifically apply to photography:
"Isn't it fascinating to realize that no image, no form, not even a shade or color, 'exists' on its own; that among everthing that's visually observable we can refer only to relationships and to contrasts?" Maurits Cornelius Escher (1898-1972), Dutch graphic artist.
However I think that this quote touches on much deeper issues than just visual art.. much in life can only be truely known through relationships and contrasts. Can everything be good in your life all the time or must you experience the bad to know the good? Can you imagine a heaven if there is no hell? If you are blind can you "know" a color, or if you are deaf can you know a tone?
That it raises these types of questions is why it's my favorite quote! |
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03/07/2003 02:06:53 PM · #3 |
Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs. As a matter of fact nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love; and viewed in this light the incorrectness of the popular classification is readily apparent. -Alfred Stieglitz, in 1899
Photography is a bitter medicine, a wonderful toy, a diffcult -yet universal- word. -Mauro Fiorese
The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics. -Manuel Alvarez Bravo
We take language into our minds; we read words in the same internal voice with which we think, remember, pray. But when we look at paintings or photographs, the reverse is true. If the image corresponds to our most intensely personal, yet archetypal, yearnings and memories, we don't take the image in, we move out of ourselves into the image, as though it were another world, a hologram whose forms of light are ghostly angels, or a dream whose physical reality is suggested by what we see on the surface of a canvas or a page. We connect with the image as though we had lost it within our own memories and are now surprised to find it represented outside ourselves, vital and luminous, charged with energy. -Jayne Anne Phillips
Sorry for the long post.
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03/08/2003 11:57:23 PM · #4 |
I don't think 'amateur' has anything at all to do with the quality of the work... 'amateurs' simply don't make a living at it..
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03/09/2003 02:14:47 AM · #5 |
Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts. -Minor White
When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously. -Minor White
There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made. -Minor White
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03/09/2003 03:50:01 AM · #6 |
"When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by the tripping of a camera's shutter, for at that point the future is still unknown and has yet to hurt us, and also for that brief moment, our poses are accepted as honest." -Douglas Coupland
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03/09/2003 04:14:23 AM · #7 |
"It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!" - Jacques-Henri Lartigue, (after taking his first photographs)
Anything that excites me, for any reason, I will photograph: not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual, nor indulging in extraordinary technique to attract attention. ΓΆ€“ Edward Weston, Daybook II, p. 155
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." - Dorothea Lange
"...To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures. Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters..." - Harry Callihan
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03/09/2003 04:22:07 AM · #8 |
Two things regarding amateurs:
First, the word amateur is from the root word amator, meaning lover. And amateur, then, is one who loves what they do.
Second, a quote on professional photographers:
"(Professional) photographers are like hookers: at first we started doing it because we liked it and it felt good, then we kept doing it, but only for our friends, and NOW we're still doing it, but we charge money to do it!" ΓΆ€“ Dean Collins
I don't know about you, but I LOVE being an amateur! |
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03/09/2003 12:08:23 PM · #9 |
f-32, I doubt there will ever be a better description of "Professional Photographer" than your quote from Dean Collins.
Love the comparison. |
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03/09/2003 12:09:17 PM · #10 |
This quote really struch a chord with me...
Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me? -Ansel Adams |
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03/09/2003 12:37:35 PM · #11 |
| Maybe I misinterpeted my Stieglitz quote but I thought it meant that not all good photographers have to make a living doing it. That it is possible for an amateur, one who loves photography to take great photos. I found inspiration in that personally but maybe I was wrong. |
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