Bruno Barbey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.
-- Bruno Barbey

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This is an early digital photograph for me. I started shooting digital some 10 years ago. I had been using Kodachrome for decades, but digital techniques offered me many new possibilities and incredible flexibility. It stimulated creation.
-- Bruno Barbey

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Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me.
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
A divided heart loses both worlds.
I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Bruno Barbey famous quotes

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