Quotes About Contemporary Photography

#1. If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath.

Douglas McCulloh

#2. Be still and know that He is God. Be assured that as long as you trust Him, He will never fail you or disappoint you.

Joyce Meyer

#3. The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it is the place where images and words find and lose their conscience, their aesthetic and ethical identity.

William J. Mitchell

#4. I know you know, and you know that I know that you know. It spirals on from there, so let's just assume the dot dot dot.

Orson Scott Card

#5. [Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)

Pierre Mac Orlan

#6. Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man. Anarchism is only one of the streams of socialist thought, that stream whose main components are concern for liberty and haste to abolish the State.

Daniel Guerin

#7. I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

Salvador Dali

#8. The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images.

Luigi Ghirri

#9. There is a divinity within our breast.

Ovid

#10. In 1967 there was no place for photography in a contemporary art gallery. It was almost impossible to get an art dealer to look at, let alone exhibit, anything photographic.

Mel Bochner

#11. I'm on the world's best birth control." "Okay," he sighed. More than okay. Her body burned like fire around him and he groaned as her heat enveloped him. She moved and he moved with her, into her. "If you're sure, ma'am." "Very sure," she said, moving against him. "Learned that the hard way.

Tiffany Reisz

#12. If you want to make an impact, you need to invest your time every bit as much as your money. And you need to stay involved for the long run. If you can't look at a five-year horizon, you shouldn't get involved.

John Morgridge

#13. Contemporary art photography is paradoxical. Anyone can look at it and form an opinion about what they see. Yet it usually represents aesthetic and theoretical positions that only a small minority of well-informed viewers can access.

Lucy Soutter

#14. While in theory digital technology entails the flawless replication of data, its actual use in contemporary society is characterized by the loss of data, degradation, and noise; the noise which is even stronger than that of traditional photography.

Lev Manovich

#15. Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.

Abigail Solomon-Godeau

#16. God wants you to find your way back to Him and the Savior is the way.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#17. Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt, a process, a vehicle, a collective pursuit, and not just the physical end product of solitary artists' endeavors.

Charlotte Cotton

#18. Well, where I come from, there are lots of bears like me.

Erin Hunter