Definition of Photography

Photography

The science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like.

The art or process of producing pictures by this action of light.

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Photography Quotations

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Ansel Adams

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Ansel Adams

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
Ansel Adams

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Jean-Luc Godard

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
Diane Arbus

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
Layne Staley

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.
David Hockney

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
David Hockney

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
Galen Rowell

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

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.
Galen Rowell

A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
Galen Rowell

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
Galen Rowell

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
Sol LeWitt

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
Edvard Munch

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
Robert Mapplethorpe

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
Robert Mapplethorpe

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
Annie Leibovitz

Photography helps people to see.
Berenice Abbott

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.
Donald Rumsfeld

Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.
Spike Lee

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.
Leonard Nimoy

I've got a great collection of photography.
Elton John

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
Bill Wyman

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Photography Translations

photography in Dutch is fotografie
photography in French is photographie
photography in German is Photo, Fotografie
photography in Portuguese is fotografia
photography in Swedish is fotografi

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