Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
[Artist, photographer, designer, and teacher, b. 1895, Bacsbarsod, Hungary, d. 1946, Chicago, Illinois.]
The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.
George, Gilbert
[Artist, b. 1942, Devon, England, lives in London.]
[Artist, b. 1943, Dolomites, Italy, lives in London.]
We show the dark side a pleasant character. A person of whom not one would speak unkindly. But here in the shadowy photographic angle the forms show definition of luck and concealed are movements of qualities of flesh and person.
Henrik Ibsen
[Writer, b. 1828, Skien, Norway, d. 1906, Christiania, Norway.]
Tokay grapes are like photographs, Mr Ekdal, they need sunshine. Isn’t that so?
(From The Wild Duck)
Italo Calvino
[Writer, b. 1923, Santiago de la Vegas, Cuba, d. 1985, Siena, Italy.]
A photograph is a trace of the luminous rays emanating from something that exists, something that is there.
Elliott Erwitt
[Photographer, b. 1928, Paris, France, lives in New York.]
Balance of light is the problem, not the amount. Balance between shadows and highlights determines where the emphasis goes in the picture... make sure the major light in a picture falls at right angles to the camera.
Edward Curtis
[Photographer and ethnographer, b. 1868, Whitewater, Wisconsin, d. 1952, Los Angeles.]
The thought which this picture is meant to convey is that Indians as a race, already shorn of their tribal strength and stripped of their primitive dress, are passing into the darkness of an unknown future. Feeling that the picture expresses so much of the thought that inspired the entire work, the author has chosen it as the first of the series.
(Photo caption)
W. Eugene Smith
[Photographer, b. 1918, Wichita, Kansas, d. 1978, Tucson, Arizona.]
Available light is any damn light that is available!
Bruce Davidson
[Photographer, b. 1933, Oak Park, Illinois, lives in New York.]
I’ve never been a photographer that loves sunshine. I love gloom.
