THE SONIC BLOG Fotografie ist Kunst | Photography is Art

“I am not interested in shooting new things – I am interested to see things new.”

Ernst Haas, 1921 – 1986

My Heart at Evening

Toward evening you hear the cry of the bats.
Two black horses bound in the pasture,
The red maple rustles,
The walker along the road sees ahead the small tavern.
Nuts and young wine taste delicious,
Delicious: to stagger drunk into the darkening woods.
Village bells, painful to hear, echo through the black fir branches,
Dew forms on the face.

Georg Trakl, 1887 – 1914

“Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.”

Jean-Luc Godard

“Composition is an essential part of a good photograph; photography as an art has no meaning without it. But craftsmanship is a means and not an end. Expression is the end. If composition is made the end, the result will be self-conscious, artificial and lifeless.
Expression and composition are like life and body – a unity. Body by itself is a corpse.”

Eric de Maré, 1910-2002

“I’m just a go-between, things discover me, I don’t discover them. But in them I can find myself and grow.”

Raymond Moore, 1920-1987

“I buy photo-books like crazy. Lately it seems I get more inspirations from books than from visiting galleries.”

Todd Hido

“I go to the busiest, public places to discover something very personal and private. It is an inescapable truth that the resulting photographs are as much about my inner state as they are about the external world they were made in. They are all self-portraits.”

Nick Turpin

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”

Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973

“The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.”

Stéphane Mallarmé, 1842 – 1898