Photo I River Hill High School Words of Wisdom Choose one quote as inspiration for further research on the

artist who said it. Find out: When did they live? * What was going on at the time? * What kind of photographs did they take? * How is their quote visible in their work? * What would a series of photographs you take, based in that quote, look like? After you have thought about the quotes and learned a little about the photographer, use a digital camera to take at least one photo that embodies what you think the quote is referencing. Print it out and include it in your sketchbook response. These quotes may not translate literally. They are from artists talking about their work. Respond in your sketchbook both visually and verbally over two facing pages to these questions and anything else you find interesting or intriguing about the person you are researching. Print out at least one copy of your chosen photographers photographs and incorporate it into your responses. After you have thought about the quotes and learned a little about the photographer, use a digital camera to take at least one photo that embodies what you think the quote is referencing, or a photo in the style of that photographer. Print it out and include it in your sketchbook response. Consider layering images with text, and as always, plan a composition that creates a sense of visual movement. 1. Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees. Paul Strand

2. Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion, instead of with the saucy swagger of self-dubbed artists. Edward Weston 3. I attempt, through much of my work, to animate all thingseven so-called inanimate objectswith the spirit of man. The creative photographer sets free the human contents of objects; and imparts humanity to the inhuman world around him. Clarence John Laughlin 4. Most of my photographs are compassionate, gentle, and personal. They tend to let the viewer see himself. They tend not to preach. And they tend not to pose as art Bruce Davidson 5. Photography is the only language understood in all parts of the world, bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man. Independent of political influencewhere people are freeit reflects truthfully life and events, allows us to share in the hopes and despair of others, and illuminates political and social conditions. We become the eye-witnesses of the humanity and inhumanity of mankind . . . Helmut Gernsheim 6. Sometimes I would set up the camera in a corner of the room, sit some distance away from it with a remote control ion my hand, and watch our people while Mr. Caldwell talked with them. It might be an hour before their faces or gestures gave us what we were trying to express, but the instant it occurred the scene was imprisoned on a sheet of film before they knew what had happened. Margaret Bourke-White 7. I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty . . . Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, forward movement of

finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace. 8. 9.

Edward Weston Garry Winogrand

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isnt attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you dont see. Emmet Gowin

10. It is part of the photographers job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country. Bill Brandt 11. !Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. -Henri Cartier-Bresson 12. Moments altogether new, never seen before... compositions whose boldness outstrips the imagination of painters... Then the creation of those instants which do not exist, contrived by means of photomontage. The negative transmits altogether new stimuli to the sentient mind and eye. -Alexander Rodchenko 13. "The magic of these objects lies between the photograph of it and the book itself." I wanted to make sure that people understood that it was photographic language being used. And it's through that language that the books become very interesting to me as not just old things and reminiscencewhich is the last thing I want people to feel, is some kind of antiquarian, "oh, it isn't fun to look at the old stuff." I want it to be alive in some new way. Abelardo Morrell 14. I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense . . .symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are. - Richard Avedon 15. The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told. - Cindy Sherman 16. ..photographs open doors into the past but they also allow a look into the future. - Sally Mann 17. What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this. I don't want people to look at them and appreciate the light and the palate of tones. I want them to look inside and see what the pictures represent, and the kind of people I photograph. - Sebastiao Salgado 18. When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track. Weegee 19. Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it. -John Baldessari 20. My acts, my painting, my photographing, my considering, are part of, not separate from, this process of evolution and change. My participation was not so much one of intellectual consideration as one of visceral involvement. John Divola