Robert Frank
[Photographer and filmmaker, b. 1924, Zürich, Switzerland, lives in Mabou, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, and New York.]
It’s nice how film survives. It’s not the way photographs are. It’s still alive. A photograph is just a memory.
Alec Soth
[Photographer, b. 1969, Minneapolis, Minnesota, lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.]
Photography is a frustrating medium. Fragmentary, frozen and mute—photographs can never match the immersive pleasures of film or music. So why bother with film sets and lighting crews? The simple process of making pictures is rich enough.
Jean-Luc Godard
[Filmmaker, b. 1930, Paris, lives in Rolle, Switzerland.]
There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images...
Jean Cocteau
[Writer, poet, artist, and filmmaker, b. 1889, Maisons-Lafitte, France, d. 1963, Milly-la-Foret, France.]
Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless...
Lewis Baltz
[Photographer, b. 1945, Newport Beach, California, d. 2014, Paris.]
It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.
Thomas Pynchon
[Writer, b. 1937, Glen Cover, New York, lives in New York.]
What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux.
Joel-Peter Witkin
[Photographer, b. 1939, Brooklyn, New York, lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.]
I think that what makes a photograph so powerful is the fact that, as opposed to other forms, like video or motion pictures, it is about stillness. I think the reason a person becomes a photographer is because they want to take it all and compress it into one particular stillness. When you really want to say something to someone, you grab them, you hold them, you embrace them. That's what happens in this still form.
Lewis Baltz
[Photographer, b. 1945, Newport Beach, California, d. 2014, Paris.]
Single frames in films don’t really work... whereas single-frame photographs are made that way.
