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"He sought a way to preserve the past. John Hershel was one of the founders of a new form of time travel.... a means to capture light and memories. He actually coined a word for it... photography. When you think about it, photography is a form of time travel. This man is staring at us from across the centuries, a ghost preserved by light."
"When we concentrate on photography, we make it possible to see the walls of photographs in black homes as a critical intervention, a disruption of white control over black images."
"My programme, The Art of Creative Expression, empowers young people with tools to express themselves. We teach photography, art and drama, but it's not just the medium that's important, it's about what you are trying to say."
"I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager. I grew up dusting lenses and learning about photography."
"My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century."
"You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors."
"The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end with the click of a button, it starts there. Printing is so exciting."
"I just love the world of photography."
"Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible."
"Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up."
"I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense."
"Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices"
"I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside."
"'I am a camera' but it is a discontinued model."
"...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography."
"I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home."
"I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand."
"There are many reasons why photography does not attract the social and cultural attention it deserves. I would add one more which has received scant attention: it does not make a lot of noise. ... Perhaps photography would be more appreciated if camera shutters fired with the sound of a .357 Magnum."
"If it is not an interesting picture when in focus, it is not going to be a better picture out of focus."
"If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph."
