I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography. — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
Many people when I started didn't believe I was a good fashion photographer, and probably they still think that. — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough? — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I love photography. Photographers and photos. I took a ton of pictures in Paris, and I find that I'm most inspired by… — Abigail Spencer Copy Share Image
Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
One of the photographers was like, "Can you stop talking and try to look sexy for a minute?" — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
I'm not a nice girl; I'm a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery,… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
As far as my experience goes one is automatically in touch with the higher spiritual, it is connected to a certain level… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of 'National Geographic', the magazine and the channel. Anything to do with the natural world. For years, when… — Tom Weston-Jones Copy Share Image
It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda;… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
If I'm talking to a photographer, I'm talking to a stylist, I'm talking to a makeup artist, we're kind of creating and… — Chloe Grace Moretz Copy Share Image
I want to allow others to reveal and celebrate aspects of themselves that are usually hidden. My camera is a witness. It… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
“Put that thing down, girl. Don't you know it steals part of your soul, that little mechanical masterpiece you hold so frivolously?… — Shannon Noelle Long Copy Share Image
I was living in Monterey, a place where the classic photographers - the Westons, Wynn Bullock and Ansel Adams - came for… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
It might take us a lifetime to find out what it is we need to say. Most of us fall into where… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
The question is not whether a picture is good, in some formal, technical sense, but, does it mean what I need it… — Thomas Roma Copy Share Image
When you're a well-known fashion photographer, modeling agencies call constantly. They'll say, This great girl is in town for three days. She's… — Jurgen Teller Copy Share Image
The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
... any dodge, or trick, or conjuration of any kind is open to the photographer's use so that it belongs to his… — Henry Peach Robinson Copy Share Image
Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious. — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
Some photographers shoot hundreds of pictures in a row and you need to be able to move from pose to pose very… — Jamie Eason Copy Share Image
My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers. — Margaret O'Brien Copy Share Image
As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution. — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost… — Jacques-Henri Lartigue Copy Share Image
Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments. — Michael Lesy Copy Share Image
I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides… — Natalie Coughlin Copy Share Image
Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible… — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer. — Derek Jeter Copy Share Image
Designers and photographers still want to work with me and I'm grateful for that. I don't know how long I'll carry on… — Linda Evangelista Copy Share Image
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