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摄影
Photography
I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity.
我全身心投入到这种艺术形式中,因为摄影给了我一种新的使命感和身份感。
I love photos, because the best thing about it is that it never changes even when the person in it does.
我喜欢照片,因为它最好的地方是即使照片中的人改变了,它也不会改变。
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
如果摄影模仿其他媒介,它永远不会成长。它必须独自行走;它必须是它自己。
A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
很多人认为,当你有壮观的风景时,比如在约塞米蒂,摄影一定很容易。
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
摄影充其量只是一个小小的声音,但有时一张照片,或者一组照片,就能吸引我们的意识。
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
摄影的使命是人与人之间以及每个人对自己的解释。这是地球上最复杂的事情。
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
当文字变得模糊时,我将用照片聚焦。当形象变得不合适时,我将满足于沉默。
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
摄影,单独的艺术,似乎完美地服务于人类一时的渴望——就在此刻——停留。
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.
没有什么比清楚地描述一个事实更神秘的了。我拍照是为了看看照片上的东西会是什么样子。
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
拍照是一回事。另一方面,通过揭示他们人性的核心来让别人关心他们。
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
摄影对业余爱好者来说是一种消遣,对专业人士来说是一种工作,而且是一项艰苦的工作,不管我有多快乐。
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
摄影就是找出画面中可能发生的事情。当你在一些事实周围加上四条边,你就改变了这些事实。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
摄影记录了人类脸上所写的各种情感,人类所继承的大地与天空之美,人类所创造的财富与困惑。它是解释人与人之间关系的主要力量。
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
一张好的照片是一个人对所拍摄事物的最深刻的感受的完整表达,因此,是一个人对生活整体感受的真实表达。
I've got a great collection of photography.
我收集了很多摄影作品。
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
摄影需要瞬间的时间,通过静止来改变生活。
Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.
当然,我意识到摄影不是技术手段,更重要的是它是眼睛,你知道,一个人为你要拍照的那一刻所做的决定。
I just love the world of photography.
我就是喜欢摄影这个世界。