Top 5 James Welling Quotes
#1. [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
#2. It's not that I don't care about content, but content is not the only way a photograph has meaning.
James Welling
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
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