On Photography: Tim Mantoani, 1969-2016
“A camera, like a guitar, is just a box with a hole in it. Until it is placed in the hands of a true artist,
“A camera, like a guitar, is just a box with a hole in it. Until it is placed in the hands of a true artist,
“In art photography, there was still this huge prejudice against color as if only black and white were aesthetically justifiable. I never bought that: for
“This is about objects, not motifs. The photo is only a substitute for an object; it is unsuitable as a picture in its customary sense.”
“I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by no one and
“It took 27 years for me to realize I was transgender. It took a month or two to decide to physically transition. It took even
“One day, there were Buddhist monks burning themselves in Saigon. My boss said, “Nicky, do you want to go take a picture?” I thought, “I’m
“Beauty, you’re under arrest. I have a camera, and I’m not afraid to use it.” – Julia Margaret Cameron Darkroom work first Julia Margaret Cameron
“My job is thick with risks, threats, occasional violence and sometimes the necessary folly that sometimes courts humiliation and ridicule. But I don’t care. I
“It’s all about sheer, hard work. This cannot be overemphasized. You must have the eye, the drive, intellect, ethics and maturity but [be] willing to
“Nobody on this Earth is going to make these pictures aside from yourself. So if you don’t do it, no one else will.” -Gregory Crewdson
“Well, I love the photographs. I don’t love the cameras and everything but I love all the pictures and the life that I’ve captured. I
“I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.” -Louis Daguerre Louis Daguerre invented the first form of modern photography, one-of-a-kind images he named