Crawley
Camera Club Phrase of the Month Archival Page
August 2007:
"Sighting
familiar objects, scenes, friends or fun through a little window and
clicking a small key are obviously child's play,
and the ensuing
childish results offer the vastest possibilities for innocent amusement
and practical exploitation by advertisers,
camera clubs, photographic
year books, salons and prizes."
Lincoln
Kerstein - essay in Walker
Evans 'American Photographs' MOMA (2nd ed 1962 p 189)
August
2006:
As its best photography appearsnot to be characterised by the absence of stereotypes but a kind of hesitation between them.
John Stezaker 'Fragments' 1978.
March
2006:
Although
photography is intimately linked to the passage of time, to
mutability and alienation, it also promises escape into permanence with
moments able to last for ever.
John Taylor "A Dream of England" -
Manchester Univ Press.
January
2006:
The umbilical cord linking
the photograph to
its referent has been well and truly broken.
Jane Fletcher - "Portfolio"
No. 42 page 10
September
2005:
Photography: a bastard left
on the doorsteps
of art by industry".
Anonymous
July
2005:
"Amateur Photographers'
clubs are places
where one gets high on the Structural complexities of cameras, where
one goes on a photographic trip. They are post-industrial opium dens".
"Be explicit to yourself of
what your
criteria are".
Lez Well
Lecturer in History of
Photography -
University of Exeter
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- March
2005:
Sally
Mann said:
“My new work is
far less iconic, less
stylised. The photographs are filled with the detritus of every day
life.”
