source: Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

topic: Photography, Cameras, Use, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, Photographer, Photograph, Landscape Photography, Camera And Photography

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

- Diane Arbus

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Taken, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

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

topic: Life, Photography, Eye, Digital Photography, Documentary Photography

Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.

- Mona Kuhn

topic: Photography, Discovery, Self, Sped, Digital Photography

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

- Matthew Modine

topic: Photography, Thinking, Way, Digital Photography

As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.

- Tipper Gore

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Photography, Technology, Avid, Latest Technology, Digital Photography

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

- Matthew Modine

topic: Photography, Stories, Digital, Digital Photography

On digital photography: It's fantastic, but it's not a freebie for anything. You still have to have this (he points to his eyes), and this (points to his heart), and feet.

- Rene Burri

topic: Photography, Heart, Eye, Digital Photography

This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a better camera to buy and new software to download. The user never has time to become comfortable with the tool. Consequently too much of the work is merely about the technology. The HDR and QTVR fads are good examples. Instead of focusing on the subject, users obsess over RAW conversion, Photoshop plug-ins, and on and on. For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

- Alec Soth

topic: Photography, Technology, Typewriters, Digital Photography, Photoshop

Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and was worth $28 billion. They even invented the first digital camera. But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram. When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only thirteen people. Where did all those jobs disappear to? And what happened to the wealth that all those middle-class jobs created?

- Jaron Lanier

source: "Who Owns the Future?". Book by Jaron Lanier, 2013.

topic: Photography, Jobs, Class, Middle Class, Kodak

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