Quotes About Landscape Photography

#1. Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Ansel Adams

#2. Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.

Galen Rowell

#3. Men have dominated the field of landscape photography just as they have dominated the land itself. Thus shooting a virgin landscape has been man's work - hunting, not gardening.

Lucy R. Lippard

#4. We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.

Robert Adams

#5. I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

Galen Rowell

#6. It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.

Diane Arbus

#7. ...when I thought he loved me, when I thought we were joined not just for breath's time, but for the long continuance, the hard candies of femur and stone, the fastnesses.

Sharon Olds

#8. I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.

David Hockney

#9. To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.

Ansel Adams

#10. Kira: L, do you know
Gods of death
love apples?
L: Damn you, Kira ...

Tsugumi Ohba

#11. I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a landscape that I need to first explore in my mind's eye if I am to make it manifest as an artful image in silver.

Paul Caponigro

#12. I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography - that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and portrait photography, are a little more applied, more mixed in the with the history of painting and other art forms.

Joel Meyerowitz

#13. I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color the way in which the American landscape is apprehended by today's viewers.

John Pfahl

#14. Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.

Jeff Ament

#15. I am a kid from the '70s, when video games first started coming out, so I definitely have to say I am a video game junkie to this day.

Cobi Jones

#16. There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind the camera as about what is in front of it.

Robert Adams

#17. I'd believed I could keep out the tales and the toys but had failed on both counts.

Peggy Orenstein

#18. A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.

Charlie Waite

#19. For me, going back to itinerant landscape painting, it's not about returning to an older method, but about building on what happened in the 20th century in photography. And also highlighting what the differences are between a painting and a photograph in picturing space.

Cynthia Daignault

#20. Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing.

Susan Sontag

#21. Useful lessons can be learned from our more successful local authorities - as you move into government, it is even more imperative to communicate speedily and persuasively with your members and your voters.

Charles Kennedy

#22. All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.

Randolph Bourne

#23. In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.

Jeanette Winterson

#24. Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.

Alexander Rodchenko

#25. This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.

Emmet Gowin

#26. Fashion is above all an art of change.

John Galliano

#27. It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.

Edward Weston