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In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.
I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.
A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.
All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.
There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.
We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
While the photos at the D.M.V. (New York) will still be taken in color, the engraving is done in grayscale, hence the Ansel Adams feel.
This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.
To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.
It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.
Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.
We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.
...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.