My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly,… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it… — Dennis Stock Copy Share Image
There are many aspects about what and why we photograph: visual pleasure, personal empathy, intellectual stimulation, technical excellence, etc. Serious photographers and… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
It's disgusting. Why would people idolize someone who doesn’t do anything and saying you're a model/photographer with a digital camera and photoshop… — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times.… — Brassai Copy Share Image
The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it's true. I would never choose a… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I hate it when people say, I'm an artist. I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I have a huge respect for the dedication that many people have, on the other side of the Atlantic, to photography. You… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done?… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I do feel that I'm talking to someone who's in a totally different place from where I was when I started modeling.… — Naomi Campbell Copy Share Image
All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
Learning how to use different formats has made me a better photographer. When I started working in medium format, it made me… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue,… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of… — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
I grew up in this industry. I'm a third generation actor, and I believe strongly that life and career are two different… — Alaina Huffman Copy Share Image
I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something… — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres,… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet.Later, next to the South… — Robert Adam Copy Share Image
You have to have a lot of 'overage' so that your failures aren't the only thing you come home with. You've got… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
You should be constantly asking yourself: What do I want to say next? What do I believe in? Who am I? What… — Mario Sorrenti Copy Share Image
Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything — the history and depth of a person's life, as well as evidence of… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
