A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend? — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever took my picture. They didn't want to. Or I wouldn't let them. You were the only exception.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction… — Martin Schoeller Copy Share Image
While primarily a photographer, I do not see or think photographically; hence the story of Indian life will not be told in… — Edward S. Curtis Copy Share Image
Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography.… — Rondal Partridge Copy Share Image
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
“The camera is a remarkable thing, you think, with its ability to transform the mundane into an immortal moment able to travel… — Greg Bottoms Copy Share Image
We are surrounded by pictures; we have an abundance of theories about them, but it doesn't seem to do us any good.… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
I don't photograph for other people. I love an audience, mind you. Once I've got them there, then I love an audience.… — Brett Weston Copy Share Image
I think that deprecation part is a very important aspect because when someone looks into themselves, if they're going to be honest,… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
I think technology has advanced so far now that there are some cameras on the market that give film a run for… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls.… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I think I've been asked a lot more than most TV producers to go on-camera. But I just do what I do… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
It's the most gratifying thing to have young girls telling me, 'I love that you do a photo shoot in pants and… — AJ Lee Copy Share Image
And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
...photography is made essentially of time. I often think that what we show is a point in time, more than a window… — Frank Horvat Copy Share Image
Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism. — Cornell Capa Copy Share Image
I took a photo of us, mid-embrace. When I am old and alone I will remember that I once held something truly… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do is make photographs that are universally understood... that cross cultural lines. I want my photographs to be… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
“The picture that bowls you over at first sight and the next day loses even the power to attract your attention is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
If you are really 'friends' with that many people on facebook, why are you alone standing in front of a mirror taking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
“Murder develops. Yes, like a photograph, isn’t it?” “It’s very much like photography really,” said Dermot. “Quite a good comparison of yours.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at… — David Hasselhoff Copy Share Image
There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school. — Ray Harryhausen Copy Share Image
Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set… — Chris Hondros Copy Share Image
I have a terror of things being nice and knowing what to expect. Making a photograph is a license to have experiences… — Katy Grannan Copy Share Image
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
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