History Of Photography Quotes

I was in the right place at the right time.

Mel Allen

Photography, Perseverance, Good Luck

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In the history of photography, one process has always replaced another. The tumultuous realignment that's going on in the photography now is really just a natural evolution. The irony is that none of the processes that have been replaced have disappeared. More people than ever are practicing every approach to shooting and printing.

Keith Carter

Photography, People, Shooting

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I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography. Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the microscope and the telescope expanded what scientists could do.

Richard Misrach

Photography, Technology, Thinking

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I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared.

Keith Carter

Photography, Process, Replaced

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The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

David Hockney

Photography, Clearing Out, Cameras

Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

Jean-Francois Chevrier

Photography, Art, Writing

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As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not simply the history of photography, who have shaped important directions for the future.

Van Deren Coke

Photography, Art, Important

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For the first time in the history of photography, we can study the real-time production of snapshot making - globally! (On Flickr and other photosharing websites)

Joachim Schmid

Photography, Real, Firsts

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