James Welling quotes

A photograph records both the thing in front of the camera and the conditions of its making... A photograph is also a document of the state of mind of the photographer. And if you were to extend the idea of the set-up photograph beyond just physically setting up the picture, I would argue that the photographer wills the picture into being.
-- James Welling

#Ideas #Mind #Cameras

There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps crouching or running with it.
-- James Welling

#Running #Cameras #Narrative

It's not that I don't care about content, but content is not the only way a photograph has meaning.
-- James Welling

#Care #Way #Photograph

Even an ugly, abject photograph bears the recording of its making... my goal [is] to create dense objects, works in which many lines of thought converge.
-- James Welling

#Goal #Ugly #Lines

... I began showing the black border of the negative as part of the image, something I'd never done before. I began to realize that the edge of the negative represents the shadow of the camera, the opaqueness of matter. It casts a shadow on the negative, so it's a photogram as well.
-- James Welling

#Black #Shadow #Cameras

[Photography] underlines the photographer. That's the Barthesian this has been. Well, this has been for the photographer as well. The photographer is the hidden placeholder in the Barthesian equation.
-- James Welling

#Photography #Photographer #Wells

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson

If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...

The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them

Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission." "We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.

There is a bit of acting involved when you get in front of a camera for a video. Even when you perform onstage, you're putting on a show.

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

As a director who loves the camera you learn a lot.