Quotes by Photographers

I go out very rarely in Paris. If it's a fashion party at a nightclub, I wouldn't dream to go. People come to you for your work, not because you go to all their parties. Peter Lindbergh
Work Fashion You People Party Out Dream Rarely Paris Come Parties Because Go Very Your Nightclub
Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most. Philippe Halsman
People Mother Picture Before Difficult Unknown Easiest Favorite Thousands Thousands Of People Like Most Likes She Am Camera Subject Question Celebrated Child Often Which Asked Asking Who Sat Last
I never think about a shoot before I do it. Because there's no formula for people. What I try to do is to strip everything away rather than go in with preconceived notions. If I do that, I might miss a gem or a jewel that the person is offering me. Platon
Me People Try Before Think Everything Strip Gem About Rather Never Miss Because Go Than Offering Person Shoot Preconceived Formula Might Notions Away Jewel
Perhaps the most important people that I should photograph are the people who don't have a voice. Platon
People Important Photograph Voice Perhaps Most Important People The Most Important Should Who
Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent. Platon
Photography Situation Potent Volatile Very
I am not a photojournalist and certainly not used to the Jason Bourne type stuff that some photographers have to deal with. Platon
Type Photographers Some Stuff Bourne Deal Am Jason Used Certainly
I'm a portrait photographer that's used to shooting celebrities, and I usually need time and all kinds of lights and a studio to set up my shots. Platon
Time Photographer Kinds Studio Lights Up Celebrities Shooting Shots Used Portrait Need Set
I'd begun to collect things that were lying in piles on the floor of my studio. I had run out of space, and I started to build shelves. I turned around one day and realized that that was the vehicle for carrying so many of the things that I was looking at and talking about, so they went from the walls to the works. Rashid Johnson
Day Walls Space Looking Build Lying One Day Out Collect Run Carrying About Had Studio Vehicle Talking Around Piles Shelves Were Begun Turned Realized Many Works Floor Things Started
I say that I suffer from what Rosalind Krauss was calling the post-medium condition, where an artist essentially employs several mediums in order to bring to life whatever specific ideas that they have. For me it's always been that way. Rashid Johnson
Life Me Whatever Mediums Way Say Several Ideas Employs Calling Always Been Condition Artist Essentially Where Order Suffer Specific Bring
My father owned a small company, called Gundel Electronics, where he did community band radio and some repair stuff. Rashid Johnson
Father Band Community Some Small He Stuff Repair Did Owned Where Radio Company Electronics
My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka. Rashid Johnson
Me Library Bible Mother Young Harold Crisis Introduced Frederick More Writers Like Came West Intellectual Intellectuals Very Which Across Skip Her Gates
I've been interested in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's work for quite a while. My first introduction to LeRoi Jones was when my mother used to read me the 'Dead Lecturer' poems when I was a kid. Rashid Johnson
Work Me Mother First Kid Introduction Poems Dead Read Been Lecturer Quite Quite A While While Interested Used
I was going through a divorce, and I had a lot of reading I was doing, and I developed what was probably a serious anxiety problem - because I was about as poor as you can get, in graduate school, and trying to make my work and keep my head above water. Rashid Johnson
Work You Anxiety Problem Water School Reading About Above Through Had Developed Head Divorce Make Because Doing Lot Get Trying Graduate Going Graduate School Poor Serious Keep
I started rereading 'The Dutchman' - I kind of just pulled it off the shelf. Rashid Johnson
Kind Shelf Off Just Started Pulled
What I really hoped to do with my work was to at least be able to define my relationship to race. Rashid Johnson
Work Relationship Define Hoped Able Least Race Really
My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures. Rashid Johnson
Class Strong Black Composition Toward Historical Goes Often Middle Middle Class Figures
The thing that turned out to be interesting about CB radios was the ability to call out in the world with anonymity. You choose your handle. Race and class become non-signifiers. Rashid Johnson
You Class World Become Out Ability About Anonymity Call Handle Interesting Race Turned Your Choose Thing
When I was younger, I remember there was a really famous book, and it was called 'The People Could Fly.' And so this idea of, kind of like, black characters kind of jumping into space and kind of the challenge that they presented to gravity I thought was really interesting. Rashid Johnson
Book People Remember Space Challenge Fly Thought Black Characters Kind Could Idea Like Jumping Famous Interesting Younger Really Gravity Presented
I attempted to do yoga in German, and it was not particularly successful. So at that time, I started thinking about the idea of just movement and how I could move to de-stress. Rashid Johnson
Time Thinking About Could Attempted Idea Particularly How German Yoga Move Just Movement Successful Started
The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share. Rashid Johnson
Photography Light Important Important Things Think Way Objects More Share Hits Sculpture Things
I don't have any other skills. Some artists say that to mean that their embodied passion for art gave them no choice. I say it, very specifically, to say that I really didn't have any other options. Rashid Johnson
Art Passion Other Gave Say No Choice Embodied Some Very Options Any Artists Mean Them Really Choice Skills Specifically
Oh, yeah, I'm all about ritual. Rashid Johnson
About Ritual Yeah Oh Oh Yeah
You can really learn a lot from young people and the way they view the world. Rashid Johnson
You People World Young Way Learn Lot Young People Really View
As an undergrad at Columbia College in Chicago, I came across 'Boondocks,' and then I watched the 'Boondocks' television show. Rashid Johnson
College Television Television Show Columbia Came Chicago Then Across Show Watched
The whole ability to look at the complexity of race and any sort of associated -ism and still find humor, that's a very interesting space. Rashid Johnson
Space Humor Complexity Find Ability Look Sort Still Very Any Interesting Race Whole Associated
I've always had an interest in complicating the way that we perceive the black character, whether it's the black academic or scholar or activist or black intellectual. Rashid Johnson
Character Black Way Perceive Scholar Had Academic Always Intellectual Whether Interest Activist
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