Photography For You

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.



When asked how he felt about missing photographs while he reloaded his camera with film, he replied "There are no photographs while I'm reloading"



No, the only thing that’s difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?



"...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



"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



A newspaper report in the Leipzig City Advertiser (c.1839) stated: "The wish to capture evanescent reflections is not only impossible... but the mere desire alone, the will to do so, is blasphemy. God created man in His own image, and no man-made machine may fix the image of God. Is it possible that God should have abandoned His eternal principles, and allowed a Frenchman... to give to the world an invention of the Devil?" - Quoted by Dr R. Leggat, Royal Photographic Society



Writing is not about words. Painting is not about pigment. Music is not about tones. As long as photographers insist that photography is about photographs, the art is limited and self-containing! - Brook Jensen



"I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost -- that is important." - Jacques-Henri Lartigue



"The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good." – Saint Ansel (Adams)



"It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel." - Susan Sontag, On Photography



"My picture-taking and picture-making are as different as day and night. I take my pictures quite unconsciously. I see them in my mind and. . . it is done without thinking. I feel the exposure. My only concern is to be ready for that moment of truth, always ready to grasp it quickly before it's gone, or to wait patiently until that split-second when it appears." - Nell Dorr