Boris Mikhailov
[Photographer, b. 1938, Kharkov, Ukraine, lives in Kharkov and Berlin.]
When you’re open to life, it responds to you. That is what an intuitive possibility of photography is—to crawl deeper into the depths of life.
Francis Bacon
[Artist, b. 1909, Dublin, Ireland, d. 1992, Madrid, Spain.]
Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people’s souls.
Idris Khan
[Artist, b. 1978, Birmingham, England, lives in London.]
I try and grasp the essence of a particular work, fuck about with it on the computer, and then display all the essence of a complete work on the wall.
Michelangelo Antonioni
[Filmmaker, b. 1912, Ferrara, Italy, d. 2007, Rome.]
We know that under the revealed image there is another one which is more faithful to reality, and under this one is yet another, and again another under this last one, down to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that nobody will ever see. Or perhaps, not until the decomposition of every image, of every reality.
Oscar Wilde
[Writer, b. 1854, Dublin, d. 1900, Paris, France.]
It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Ansel Adams
[Photographer, b. 1902, San Francisco, d. 1984, Carmel, California.]
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
Alan Trachtenberg
[Writer and critic, b. b. 1932, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, lives in Hamden, Connecticut.]
Now we distrust depths, interiors, hidden truths. Meanings lie on surfaces, artifacts of an occasion rather than truths about persons.
Ray Metzker
[Photographer, b. 1931, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, d. 2014, Philadelphia.]
I don’t need exotic places to be stimulated. Out of familiarity comes nuance. The more you revisit a subject the more you’re like to discover.
