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{Photography.3.1}: Kai Hagen {kai} Thu, 17 Jul 2003 00:55:46 CDT (1 line)
Please share good quotes about photography here.
{Photography.3.2}: {kai} Thu, 17 Jul 2003 01:00:35 CDT (0 lines)
{erased by kai Thu, 17 Jul 2003 01:01:36 CDT}
{Photography.3.3}: Kai Hagen {kai} Thu, 17 Jul 2003 01:02:01 CDT (HTML)
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"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Ansel Adams
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"The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding."
Edward Steichen
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"At forty-two I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn*t rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted."
Wynn Bullock
{Photography.3.4}: Kathryn Ellicott {katielli} Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:02:28 CDT (1 line)
"When behind my camera, I am without fear."- Alfred Steiglitz
{Photography.3.5}: MaryAnn {beledi} Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:22:30 CDT (10 lines)
I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself. I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse. The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way. -Diane Arbus
{Photography.3.6}: Rachel {sugarfreak} Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:27:16 CDT (1 line)
She was my main inspiration when I was in school!
{Photography.3.7}: Amanda Peck {amanda615} Thu, 24 Jul 2003 22:01:35 CDT (6 lines)
It's been a long time since I've looked at a lot of Arbus. But from what I remember, "I work from awkwardness" is pretty much how I saw her work. That kind of surreal quality that just might come from not having a clue?
{Photography.3.8}: Rachel {sugarfreak} Fri, 25 Jul 2003 08:27:40 CDT (5 lines)
Ha, it's true that she often worried that her camera hadn't been loaded properly. For her the camera was more of a prop to get into the lives of strangers. That process was more important than even the photographs themselves. She wasn't a great craftsperson when it came to her printing.
{Photography.3.9}: Judy Johnson {judy} Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:05:20 CDT (3 lines)
What Arbus said sure resonates with me as far as my approach. Because I rarely "arrange" things, I end up cropping a lot of clutter from the periphery of my images.
{Photography.3.10}: Will Page {willpage} Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:21:09 CDT (4 lines)
"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her." -Ellen DeGeneres
{Photography.3.11}: as heard on NPR's Morning Ed. {willpage} Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:29:52 CDT (6 lines)
about the photographic style and technique of Edward Weston Huntington Curator of Photographs Jennifer Watts said Weston never cropped his photographs: "He's really about finding the form in nature. Be it gnarled form in the stump of a tree, or clouds, and honing in on that in a clear, concise, framed way."
{Photography.3.12}: Amanda Peck {amanda615} Tue, 12 Aug 2003 20:50:36 CDT (7 lines)
But he used a view camera. A whole lot easier to compose absolutely full-frame in that. As opposed to a view-finder especially, but even a SLR does some cropping, or extending, depending, so it's still a good idea to at least give yourself some wiggle room. And, heck, if you're going to give yourself some wiggle room, you might as well take advantage of the capability.
{Photography.3.13}: Will Page {willpage} Wed, 13 Aug 2003 07:34:42 CDT (7 lines)
Hey, I crop too, believe me! I thought the quote was interesting in a different way. I had to think of how a sculptor looks at a hunk of marble, and wonders what underlying form might be revealed with a hammer and chisel. When we, as photographers, look at a scene with our two eyes and wide field of view, it is a special discipline to know which small rectangle will capture the essence of that scene in a photo.
{Photography.3.14}: William Maloney {qajaq} Wed, 13 Aug 2003 07:47:58 CDT (HTML)
{Photography.3.15}: Ed Hawco {ed1} Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:27:23 CDT (HTML)
Here's an example that I think I've show around here before:
It is interesting to note that this aesthetic is hardly ever applied to color photography (which is considered by artsy hipsters to be intrinsically less "artsy").
As Amanda points out, Weston used a view camera, which involves a lot
of patient setting up and composting, so it is natural that you
wouldn't crop later unless you wanted to present the image in a
different aspect ratio or something. But when shooting quickly, it's a
different thing. I find I frequently crop when I'm using digital,
partly because I don't have a lot of faith in the viewfinder or
screen's fidelity as it relates to the final image. Also, I frequently
present digital images in aspect ratios very different from what the
camera recorded (which involves chopping off some stuff).
{Photography.3.16}: Ed Hawco {ed1} Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:29:06 CDT (2 lines)
All that to say, photography schools tend to train the student to try to compose in the camera as a way of learning to "see photographically."
{Photography.3.17}: Kai Hagen {kai} Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:35:54 CDT (HTML)
And, fairly often, I take things with the intention to crop out all but a particular
vertical or horizontal strip.
{Photography.3.18}: Will Page {willpage} Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:52:33 CDT (11 lines)
Hi Kai. I love this new forum you began! I also agree with your take on cropping. I will guess that everyone who has replied about this, like me, is now cropping on a PC application. Back in the 80s, when I had easy access to darkrooms, it wasn't a worry either. However, there was a time span of about 10 years where I regressed and took my little touristy point-and-shoot nikon and took pictures knowing that, although not totally out-of the question, I would be settling for what I got back from the quickie-commercial-photo-lab and hope I framed the pictures well enough to make 2-5% of them 'keepers' that I might actually stick in an album (instead of a shoebox).
{Photography.3.19}: Amanda Peck {amanda615} Thu, 14 Aug 2003 21:22:09 CDT (1 line)
My view of the picture was a little red x.
{Photography.3.20}: Rich Mason {richpix} Tue, 14 Oct 2003 01:24:49 CDT (2 lines)
Rather than post one quotation I bring you a link to a site full of them: http://www.photoquotes.com/
{Photography.3.21}: Coyote {coyote} Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:09:52 CDT (1 line)
Ooo... that's lovely! Thanks, Rich :-)
{Photography.3.22}: Amanda Peck {amanda615} Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:04:30 CDT (1 line)
I found nice ones in there!
{Photography.3.23}: Judy Johnson {judy} Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:12:24 CDT (1 line)
Very cool.
{Photography.3.24}: Kai Hagen {kai} Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:19:10 CDT (3 lines)
Yes. Thanks, Rich.
{Photography.3.25}: Which Hazel? {hazel2} Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:28:15 CDT (2 lines)
Oh, I can tell I'm going to be reading for awhile. Thanks for posting that.
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