#photo

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#art

People look at ordinary stuff all day long, so why not make a picture look extraordinary, and give them something new to look at. ↗

— Heath Bouffard

#photography #self #art

The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon this possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world dominated by apparatuses; to reflect upon the way in which, despite everything, it is possible for human beings to give significance to their lives in the face of the chance necessity of death. Such a philosophy is necessary because it is the only form of revolution left open to us. ↗

— Vilém Flusser

#ethics #photograph #photography #art

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#photography #photos #pictures #youth #youth

When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls! ↗

— Ted Grant

#color #photography #street-photography #photography

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#photograph #shirley #should #temple #through

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#art #forms #i #interested #other

I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me. ↗

— Boris Becker

#how #i #know #many #me

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field. ↗

— Bill Brandt

#carried #certain #embarrassment #feel #field

No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience. ↗

— J. Carter Brown

#crunch #experience #garden #give #hear