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The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography. -- Marston Bates
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. -- Aaron Siskind
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. -- Nigel Dennis
Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear. -- Martin Parr
I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the nature of how we live through photography, and how you can twist an angle to create a different perception of a person. -- Alison Jackson
I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the American West. That was when I learned about the tradition of nature in American photography. -- Frans Lanting
Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible? -- Duane Michals
I became passionate about nature filmmaking when I graduated from UCLA, and one of the things I always wanted to do was shoot really high quality film, so I got into time-lapse photography - so that means when you shoot a flower, you're shooting, like, one frame every twenty minutes, so that's basically two seconds of a film per day. -- Louie Schwartzberg
Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class. -- Drew Barrymore
Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy. -- Allan Sekula
Photography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light. -- Kevin Russo
Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature. -- Heinrich Heine
Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards. -- Charles Sheeler
Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography. -- August Sander
If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854) -- Charles Negre
Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph. -- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature. -- Paul Caponigro
The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to photography. -- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used. -- Ansel Adams
If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge of things that can't be found. -- Frederick Sommer
The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to. -- Helmut Newton

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