Image Production Quotes

The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.

Photorealism was this fantastic movement in like the late '60s and '70s, because photography finally became something that everyone could produce. Photorealism was and should've been a very short element. But the thing is, photography is so satisfying. Certainly when it's well done.

I like creating images.

Looking out at the photographic landscape that surrounds us - the world of images and image-making that we inhabit - it seems obvious that photography has undergone dramatic changes in its technical, cultural, and critical composition.

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

In some areas, [Getty Images has] more images than the rest of the market put together. But libraries are being built up at a terrific pace. A photographer in a lifetime will produce maybe a million images, and there are about 15,000 professionals at work out there.

Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light.

Images exist; things themselves are images... Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement.