I think photography has a huge potential to expand a circle of knowledge. There's a reality that we are all the more… — Susan Meiselas Copy Share Image
“Zar mi Friedrich ne može reći jesu li moje fotografije umjetnost? Što je uopće umjetnost? Ostarjela sam, a da me nisu uputili… — Jasna Horvat Copy Share Image
For me, what was important was to record everything I saw around me, and to do this as methodically as possible. In… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him.… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
What I find most satisfying about photography is the way in which it allows me to document 'reality' while at the same… — Alix Smith Copy Share Image
A picture is what it is and I've never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about… — William Eggleston 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
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
“I liked watching them, all three of them around my truck. I wanted time to stop because everything seemed so simple, Dante… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz 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
It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because… — Fred Ritchin 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
The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I… — Henri Cartier-Bresson 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
A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing.… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
The ratio of successful shots is one in God-knows-how-many. Sometimes you'll get several in one contact sheet, and sometimes it's none for… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
“Each photo is like a novel I can never open, Gary had explained once. I can hold it in my hand and… — Jennifer McMahon Copy Share Image
The photographers I worked alongside loved the news cycle and the hustle and getting that front page of the newspaper. But I… — Daniel Berehulak Copy Share Image
The late, great ABC golf anchor Jim McKay once advised me, 'When you look into the camera, imagine you are talking to… — Jim Nantz Copy Share Image
“It was an irresistible development of modern illustration (so largely photographic) that borders should be abandoned and the "picture" end only with… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau 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
“But I've always been a sucker for externals alone: the shape, the shine, what the surface suggests to my palm. So mechanically… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
The Photo Album is the weakest record. For the first time in our careers, we found ourselves with an economic incentive to… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
...candid still photography had taken over... What was interesting was that the photographs came without any intention of instructing you... You're like… — D. A. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
My photography is very European. In America, I always get the sense that people are comforted by understanding what they're looking at.… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
Once you make decisions, you can't go back, but in photography, that process can continue. With film, you have to eliminate all… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
To us, the difference between the # photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I make one image—though 'make' is not the right word; I let, perhaps, an image be 'made' emotionally in me and then… — Dylan Thomas 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
“We're so distracted, we're missing out own lives. The parent who records his kid's dance recital or first steps or graduation is… — Dave Bruno Copy Share Image
“The photo was published in the majority of Brazilian newspapers in a full-page spread when CNN and all the television channels of… — Ignacio De Loyola Brandao Copy Share Image
Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively… — Bernd Becher Copy Share Image
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of… — Robert Heinecken Copy Share Image
One of the most amazing things that came out of 9/11 was all the pictures taken by amateurs, by people just going… — Stanley Greene Copy Share Image