Sally Mann Quotes About Photography

Quotes about: Photography

• I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.

  Sally Mann

  Photography, Thinking, People

• Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

  Sally Mann

  Inspirational, Photography, Past

• Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were poetry, would be more like Ezra Pound. There is a lot of information in most of my pictures, but not the kind of information you see in documentary photography. There is emotional information in my photographs.

  Sally Mann

  Photography, Emotional, Would Be

• What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing a different piece of information.

  Sally Mann

  Photography, Different, Pieces

• If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography - the mendacity of photography. It’s got to have some kind of peculiarity in it, or it’s not interesting to me.

  Sally Mann

  Photography, Interesting, Photographer

  "Dog Bone Prints: Sally Mann". Art in the Twenty-First Century Interview, art21.org. September 2001.

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