April 12, 2012
"I ‘made it’ when we did our first issue. Everything else - the New York Times, even making a movie - is lesser than Love and Rockets, as far as I’m concerned, and everyone else should treat their work that way. It it’s your own work, it should be treated as the last thing, not the first thing."

— Jaime Hernandez (via spx)

(via fantagraphics)

10:37pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoTgayJaR558
(Notes: 148)
  
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April 10, 2012
"…I had always thought that if I photographed someone enough, I could never lose them. Putting the pictures together had made me realize how much I’d lost. And I went into a long period of not being able to photograph. I realized how little photography did. It had failed me."

— from “Nan Goldin on Cookie Mueller”

11:37pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoTgayJTMGu_
(Notes: 25)
  
Filed under: art photography quotes Nan Goldin Cookie Mueller AIDS american suburb x 
November 7, 2011
"Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together."

—

Elizabeth Taylor

I just spent a long time on Google trying to verify this quote. I hope she really said this, it’s amazing.

(Source: quote-book, via danielbritain)

11:08pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoTgayBfOFy1
(Notes: 9,959)
  
Filed under: quotes Elizabeth Taylor 
June 14, 2011
"It’s the other way round. The people Frank was photographing didn’t like him. That’s completely different. People like Frank and the good street photographers antagonised their subjects just because of who they where - that’s why they got all those good pictures of people staring at them looking antagonised. The meaning of good street photography is people looking pissed off. Isn’t that why you like Mark Cohen and Bruce Gilden so much. The whimsical shit with happy people is just whimsical shit. Unless it’s Winogrand, then it’s not whimsy."

— Colin Pantall’s blog: random conversations #10 (via photographsonthebrain)

(via photographsonthebrain)

8:30am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoTgay64nWAR
(Notes: 16)
  
Filed under: art photography quotes 
June 2, 2011
"Robert Frank was a one-man revolution. Before him pictures for the most part were pretty and clean and pre-visualized, and shot from a tripod. Frank came along and tore a new A-hole in that aesthetic. Fortunately he had something to replace it with: a strong personal vision. Most young photographers who follow in his footsteps don’t. They mistake grain, guts, and verve with substance. Sorry folks, but hitting three out of four doesn’t count. I know it took cajones to shoot that cowboy bar at 1 am pushing your film to 3200, but that doesn’t keep your photo from being boring. Time to shoot something you care about, and don’t try to convince me it’s flags or the underclass."

— from “10 Oeuvres Aspiring Photographers Should Ignore”

9:51am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoTgay5iEtoo
(Notes: 23)
  
Filed under: art photography quotes robert frank Bryan Formhals Blake Andrews LPV Magazine 
May 14, 2011
"He puts on sunglasses to hide the difference in their eyes. He adopts a pigeon-toed walk with short steps and leaning strides. He wears baggy shorts and a wrinkled T-shirt. He blows into his hands and fills his face with outrageous expressions of shock and pain."

— Tales of a Pau Gasol impersonator

8:42pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoTgay57n6Ib
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May 9, 2011
"Jesus and Judas kiss, but there wasn’t any tongue so I didn’t screencap it. Which is a good guideline for how far Gaga isn’t willing to go with ‘Judas’ and how safe she is playing with this material. Maybe that’s unfair. Maybe I’m so high on special rights and cultural expectation that the sight of two men not tongue-kissing offends me. Maybe Gaga aims to bring a lot more people into her fold by blending sex with religion in a really boring, palatable way, and wanted to make a video that didn’t offend any future consumers."

— Garland Gray on the “Judas” video

3:03pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoTgay4_NSAR
(Notes: 1)
  
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May 6, 2011
"

Today a photographer is not only responsible for photography equipment, but most of us own printers, scanners, and many other tools of the trade. We need to be marketers, promoters, and navigate through social media. We are required to wear many hats and be capable of many tasks, and still have a creative voice, and find stillness in the chaos to make work.

Something is wrong with this template. In addition, this enormous expense put onto the photographer narrows our community, narrows who can participate. I don’t have the answers, but it’s time we figure it out. Otherwise, we won’t be able to afford our own success.

"

— Aline Smithson

9:08am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoTgay4ugmbR
(Notes: 2)
  
Filed under: quotes art photography Aline Smithson lenscratch 
April 26, 2011
"Holy crap, are you kidding me? Where does she get off taking something like that? … For photographers who’ve been at it a while, it’s sort of like being at mile 20 of a marathon and having some young punk in street clothes blow by at sprint speed. It brings into question the entire premise of the enterprise. But alas, nothing to do but keep slogging."

— Blake Andrews on Vivian Maier. Perfectly sums up the feelings I had while looking at her website last week (“I’m about to go to graduate school for photography and I’m never going to be as good as that damned nanny was!”)

1:42pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoTgay4dvLuH
(Notes: 3)
  
Filed under: art photography quotes Blake Andrews Vivian Maier 
April 11, 2011
"As someone who came of age as a feminist artist in the 90′s the idea that I even had a career was repugnant to me. I made art to be a part of a community and a larger conversation, not to make a name for myself. Right? I am super humble and altruistic and don’t need things like money or health insurance and can just give away all my labor for free. Right? … As embarrassing as it is to admit, I’ve spent the past 20 years trying to find my way out of the ‘us vs. them’ maze I stumbled into in the 90′s and I sure as hell don’t want this maze (or the over arching identity politics one) to become a part of the 90′s revival that is now underfoot. It’s bad enough that stretch pants and black jeans are back!"

— Kathleen Hannah

7:01pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoTgay4ElJSp
(Notes: 5)
  
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