“Being photographed was dead time for the soul. Can the head think, while it does the same half smile under the same… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
Being a photographer helps me see the work differently. I always walk away seeing things differently than when I stare at them… — Reed Krakoff Copy Share Image
Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism… — Helmut Gernsheim Copy Share Image
The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
The simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, there’s a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges… — Brassai Copy Share Image
If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
That is - the use of the subjective camera is an idea that's been around in movies for a long, long time.… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I think that it's workshops, honestly, that have kept me keen about photography, and about my photography. My career as a workshop… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
I try to keep feeling what's going on and try to use the camera, the actors and the design to enhance those… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
Legendary photographer Annie Leibowitz persuaded us to pose in our underwear. When the magazine hit the stands we were horrified to see… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they… — Mark Lawson Copy Share Image
“It's been said that the role of the artist is to teach us to see and that's true. However, the role of… — Brooks Jensen Copy Share Image
The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘Aaaaah,’ with five vowels when… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
There's this weird kind of thing that happens once the camera's out. And it's a person-by-person thing how the camera will affect… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
Videoing, lifting it, prodding it, and five minutes later they might even eat it! That first approach to the naked eye is… — Gordon Ramsay Copy Share Image
“The time of the photograph is [always] after. This imprecision accommodates the numerous successions, the end upon seismic end, in a time… — Nathanael Copy Share Image
No one understood why I would wanna be behind the camera, not in front of the camera, and so no one took… — Amanda de Cadenet Copy Share Image
There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest… — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
The lover of photography is fascinated both by the instant and by the past. The moment captured in the image is of… — Peter Wollen Copy Share Image
Making photos is helpful of course to master the craft. To get comfortable with the camera. Learn what a camera can do… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
“Photography is about personal style, what draws you to a subject and how to capture that subject is unique to you. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white-people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
A crowd thinks in images, and the image itself calls up a series of other images, having no logical connection with the… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights… — Robert Keith Leavitt Copy Share Image
Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel,… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the stunted desire caused by one of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Part of the fascination that photography holds is its ability to unlock secrets kept even from ourselves. Like dreams, the photograph can… — Jack Welpott Copy Share Image
There is a secret, I think. When you are front of a camera there is something that happens. Some relationship, some movement,… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
“Some individuals came right out and accused me of being a Neo-Orientalist (in a pejorative Edward Said sense of the term). So… — Waswo X Waswo Copy Share Image
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