John Sexton Quotes

I understood the craft of photography when done by an artist is art.

You have a negative, and you can have an influence whether you want to have it more contrasty or less contrasty; you can pre-flash the photo paper. You can make it warmer or colder, lighter, darker. This is all a way of manipulating the image in a normal way, not changing the pixels.

Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the finished print must be created in full before the film is exposed.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

I have equal parts film and digital cameras in my collection. I think that there are ways to Photoshop photos so that they look like you shot them on film, but is that as rewarding? It just depends on the person.

For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.

Yes, I'm always - I'm always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

In terms of digital photography, I continue to print and use film for the most part. I still shoot with film, 21/4 film specifically, and I love it. I love it because I know what it does, how it really responds to light.

I like to think of Photography 1.0 as the invention of photography. Photography 2.0 is digital technology and the move from film and paper to everything on a chip. Photography 3.0 is the use of the camera, space, and color and to capture an object in the third dimension.

I feel more like a creative artist using photography because there's - the digital work is so interesting now. It's come to that. I have had many different stages of photography - there are many different ways to take photos. But I feel now I'm in that stage of my life where I use the camera, you know, in that way.

Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.

I discovered that I could do whatever I wanted with a negative in a darkroom and an enlarger.

I have written a lot of musical theatre over my life - two Olivier Award-winning musicals - and I still don't think I'm ready to be the boss in the room.

I have a dark room, and I still process film, but digital photography can be a totally lying kind of experience; you can move anything you want... the whole thing can't be trusted, really.

I see all these professional photographers out at the racetrack, and there's all these people across the world, taking really cool pictures and you're like, 'Man, I want to create that!' I had that mindset when I first grabbed a camera.

In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.

Memories. That's the thing about photography. I look at the contact sheet, and it brings back everything: whether I was tired, whether I was full of beans.

I come from the school of thought that feels that if you can shoot film, you should shoot film.

I take it very seriously, the photographic craft.