INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY AND FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY
Today, fashion photography is art’s rising star, drawing large crowds to exhibitions and enticing more collectors.
Through our constant research, we have encountered many quotes about photography and Fashion Photography that have resonated with us. From writers, curators, artists themselves, they provide a better understanding of the art of photography. We felt we should share them and created this page. The order is serendipity, as the lucky encounters they represent. We hope you will enjoy!
ABOUT FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY AND PHOTOGRAPHY
“Fashion pictures are images that showcase style; viewed critically, they offer a means of cultural reflection, tracking changes in societal attitudes, politics, sexuality, social and economic structures, and the value that we ascribe to expressions of individuality.” - Antwaun Sargent
“The Fashion image is a Totem” - Antwaun Sargent
“Fashion Photography is art when the photographer is an author” - Raphaelle Stopin, artistic director at festival international de mode
“To emerge in the art world a photographer needs to understand the story they want to convey to the world. It is essential to understand the dynamic of combining everyday life experiences with the fantasy.” - Steven Klein
“Chris von wangenheim was integral to a movement aimed at bringing an edge to fashion pictures” - Steven Klein
“We are living through history, and the photography of today will be a time capsule for future generations.” - Pam Harris, Fotografiska
“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” - Alfred Stieglitz
“The photographic image … is a message without a code” - Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
“Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.” - Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
“For some years now, I have measured the years by Steptember issues” – Vince Aletti
“The world of photography is one of vision. It is one in which a person’s eye for beauty, pain, wit, social status and many other aspects of the human experience can be made tangible.” - Dr. Deborah Willis
“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.” - Ansel Adams
‘I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong. “ -Roy DeCarava
“I think that photography and art in general should never speak of reality but allude to reality.” - Giovanni Gastel
“It’s a quest for Beauty, a treasure hunt. It’s about finding the right angle, dancing with light and the model’s energy.” - Emmanuelle Hauguel
“Fashion photography is a most fantastic barometer of the time.” - Eugenie Shinkle
“There is this vastness of beauty and elegance that always surrounds us. but one must open one's eyes to see it.” - Richard Phibbs
“There is a lot of light on this planet and there is a lot of unbelievable darkness. i am not interested in the dark.” - Richard Phibbs
“A good photograph is one that steals the soul. Sometimes, this moment only lasts a fraction of a second.” - Sylvie Castioni
“Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson
ABOUT ART:
“Artists have the job of documenting their times”- Faith Ringgold
“Beauty is not merely something shallow, but something that mirrors a culture.” - Vincent Peters
“The Main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.” - Auguste Rodin
“When everything seems to crumble and nothing appears to make sense anymore, only the total and absolute gratuity of art, its being resistant to any Tangible usefulness, its nature being so tragically fleeting and extemporaneous can help us recover the sense of life through the catastrophic and help us ‘riveder le stelle’” - Andrea Bocchiola
“Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.” - Carrie Mae Weems
“The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.” - Junot Diaz
“There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.” - Robert Henri
“You know, artists are influenced by other artists. We're all deeply influenced by what's around us; we don't make anything cold. Sometimes we think that we do. But within that, the most important part is that even though we're influenced, what are the levels of invention that we carry forth even as we've been influenced by something that's come before?” - Carrie Mae Weems