Art Photography

A good snapshot stops

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. Eudora Welty

There is only you

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are. Ernst Haas

To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. Elliott Erwitt

Photography to the amateur

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be. Edward Weston

The use of the

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

Photography deals exquisitely with

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. Duane Michals

While there is perhaps

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. Dorothea Lange

One should really use

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it. Dorothea Lange

The visual life is

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. Dorothea Lange

One should really use

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind. Dorothea Lange