Photography is Dead, Long Live Photography
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Ansel Adams on Photographing Yosemite
Ansel Adams on Photography and Visualization
The Americans: The Book That Changed Photography
Quotes
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
–Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams attuned himself more precisely than any photographer before him to a visual understanding of the specific quality of the light that fell on a specific place at a specific moment. For Adams the natural landscape is not a fixed and solid sculpture but an insubstantial image, as transient as the light that continually redefines it. This sensibility to the specificity of light was the motive that forced Adams to develop his legendary photographic technique.
–John Szarkowski
Nature transformed through industry is a predominant theme in my work. I set course to intersect with a contemporary view of the great ages of man; from stone, to minerals, oil, transportation, silicon, and so on. To make these ideas visible I search for subjects that are rich in detail and scale yet open in their meaning. Recycling yards, mine tailings, quarries and refineries are all places that are outside of our normal experience, yet we partake of their output on a daily basis.
–Edward Burtynsky
No knowledge of photography is necessary.
–Ad for a Kodak camera, 1888
The most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads-as an anthology of images.
–Susan Sontag, 1977