I don't pretend to make my photographs speak the truth of what Mexico is all about. But in its villages I can… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
The oceans are in trouble. There are some serious problems out there that I believe are not clear to many people. My… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
I think you have to have a real point of view that's your own. You have to tell it your way. And,… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
Music defines decades, and quite clearly shapes the rhythm, vitality of fashion, attitude and social behaviors. The anthology, just like most of… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
The moment when I press the shutter is fantastic, orgasmic, so charged with the hope that this will be a great, original,… — Jean Pigozzi Copy Share Image
And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
One of the elements of photography is, just by nature, journalistic. It's some kind of documentation. The most successful pictures to me… — Richard Kern Copy Share Image
Before the days of video village a director should stand right next to the camera, look with his naked eye and if… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
An echo is a good way to describe the photogram, which is a visual echo of the real object. That's why I… — Adam Fuss Copy Share Image
Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
Today a lot of things are so celebrity-oriented; it's only because it's celebrity and the photograph is lost. To me it's important… — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
To ask people's permission to take their pictures? Sometimes it feels right to ask, but I will not ask, unless it is… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
My first camera job was filming workplace safety videos, which involved months of watching and videotaping people doing their jobs. I was… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
“Evan slung his arm over my shoulder. “That’s my mom and dad,” he pointed to a couple approaching us as families trickled… — Micalea Smeltzer Copy Share Image
I hate getting my photograph taken; just because I'm a musician doesn't mean I should have to sell my soul and have… — Amy Macdonald Copy Share Image
The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do… — Graeme Le Saux Copy Share Image
I did it once, and National Geographic recruited me. I did it primarily out of curiosity. A lot of legendary photographers had… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
My mother loaned me $1000. The first issue came out at the end of 1953. I knew I needed something original. I… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be… — Kristanna Loken Copy Share Image
I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it… — Melanie Brown Copy Share Image
This photographic thing has changed the entire vision of the world. It will go through every activity of humanity - science, medicine,… — Lisette Model Copy Share Image
I meet young artists and it becomes clear that with some the main motivation is getting a show in Chelsea. It strikes… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
“Over the years I forced myself to be creative in how I covered the same scenes over and over. I started shooting… — Lynsey Addario Copy Share Image
Cause when you come from the bottom man its so hard to get a glimpse. So hard to get a glimpse, so… — Big Sean Copy Share Image
Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It… — Max Kozloff Copy Share Image
In case you haven't heard, my girlfriends and I have declared the summer of 2012 as the best summer ever. The best… — Candice Accola Copy Share Image
Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject… — Alex Webb Copy Share Image
I never knew anyone who came close to Marilyn in natural ability to use both photographer and still camera. She was special… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
“A picture is worth a thousand words, but is 400% less valuable, because a picture only captures one of the senses—sight. However,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I'd like the photographs to potentially be meaningful to a wide range of people. They do not grow out of the reportage… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
“Isn't it what life is about, after all? A series of images that pass us by like towns as you cross along… — Angélica Calheiros - Nove dias para amar Copy Share Image
... mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement,… — August Sander Copy Share Image
“Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes forever the precise and transitory instant. We photographers deal… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
When you hand someone a camera, why do they act like you just asked them to dissemble a bomb? They take it… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
Every shot is unique, even if it's just a close-up, an insert of your hand. You've got to work with the guy… — Robert Forster Copy Share Image
![“I think you have to have a real point of view that's your own. You have to tell it your way. And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a specific magazine's point of view because it's never going to be as good. You have to shoot for yourself and photograph [ the way] you believe it..” quote by Mary Ellen Mark](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b7f/mary-ellen-mark-8293_believe_i-think-you-have-to-have-a-real-point-of_1177227.png)
![“Before the days of video village a director should stand right next to the camera, look with his naked eye and if he sees something that is real to him, he'd look up at the [camera] operator and if he gives the look to indicate he'd seen it to, then you print and you'd move on.” quote by Matt Damon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dcd/matt-damon-3371_cameras_before-the-days-of-video-village-a-direc_2949528.jpg)
