Quote of the Day – November 2 2016
“What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.”
Berenice Abbott
Quote of the Day – November 1 2016
“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down….”
Kate Morton, The […]
Quote of the Day – October 31 2016
“Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.”
Democritus c. 460 – c. 370 BC
Quote of the Day – October 30 2018
“There is something missing in a lot of digital filmmaking, something I call “poetic reality.” That’s something you see played out in film noir, where the technique establishes the mood. If you do not bother to take the time to compose and to light properly, then you end up with something almost less than reality. […]
Quote of the Day – October 29 2016
“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. ”
Jean-Luc Godard
Quote of the Day – October 28 2016
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”
Robert Frank
Image credit: Robert Frank – London, 1951-1952
Quote of the Day – October 27 2016
“Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That’s the thing about painting, photography, cinema.”
David Lynch
Quote of the Day – October 26 2016
“A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist – moving an audience through a movie … making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.”
Gordon Willis
Gordon Willis was an American cinematographer best known for his work on Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather series as well as Woody Allen’s Annie Hall and […]
Quote of the Day – October 25 2016
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered the master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He helped develop street photography, and approvingly cited a notion of the inevitability of a decisive moment, a term adopted as […]
Quote of the Day – October 24 2016
“The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning… The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.”
Henri Matisse