Albert Renger-Patzsch famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because of their photographic qualities.
-- Albert Renger-Patzsch

#Photography #Art #Trying
There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase in the joy one takes in an object, and the photographer should become fully conscious of the splendid fidelity of reproduction made possible by his technique. Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement.
-- Albert Renger-Patzsch

#Joy #Technique #Needs
In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.
-- Albert Renger-Patzsch

#Photography #Essence #Should
Technique does not need to be interpreted. It interprets itself. You have to choose the right objects and focus on them precisely and they will tell you their own stories.
-- Albert Renger-Patzsch

#Focus #Technique #Doe
Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement
-- Albert Renger-Patzsch

#Improvement #Poor #Constant
To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines operating at one thousand horsepower - only photography is capable of that. What those who are attached to the painterly style regard as photography's defect, the mechanical reproduction of form - is just what makes it superior to all other means of expression.
-- Albert Renger-Patzsch

#Photography #Mean #Technology
I'd like to briefly state the accomplishment that we expect from a photographer. He must make the person being photographed forget that he has eaten from the tree of knowledge.
-- Albert Renger-Patzsch

#Accomplishment #Tree #Photographer
... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.
-- Albert Renger-Patzsch

#Photography #Modern Life #Life Is
There was a time when one looked over one's shoulder with an ironical smile at the photographer and when photography as a profession seemed almost invariably a target for ridicule. That time is now over.
-- Albert Renger-Patzsch

#Photography #Target #Photographer

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesnâ€™t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean.
Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.
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.
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
Good satire goes beyond the specific point itâ€™s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, youâ€™re not left believing everything theyâ€™re telling you.
Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.

Albert Renger-Patzsch famous quotes

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