Photograph Quotes · Page 39

A photograph can look any way.

— Garry Winogrand

Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The…

— Lewis Thomas

I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.

— Barbara Ess

To photograph is to confer importance.

— Susan Sontag

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else…

— Markus Wolf

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.

— Susan Meiselas

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

— Shirley Knight

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".

— Keith Carter

Our editors, I'm afraid, have come to believe that the photograph is an end in itself. They've forgotten that the photograph is…

— Roy Stryker

Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.

— Andreas Feininger

My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.

— Bill Jay

One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852. And I realized…

— Roland Barthes

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to…

— W. Eugene Smith

It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs…

— F. L. Lucas

If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that…

— Garry Winogrand

Working at the scene of the action, I have adopted Robert Capa's saying: 'If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close…

— Micha Bar-Am

'Changes in Latitudes' began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong…

— Will Hobbs

Having exhausted every possibility at the moment when he was coming full circle, Antonino realised that photographing photographs was the only course…

— Italo Calvino

It's been a strange [summer].... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers.... Of course, I included myself.

— Weegee

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as…

— Richard Avedon

To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether…

— Augusten Burroughs

From in the shadow she calls. And in the shadow she finds a way, finds a way. And in the shadow she…

— Tori Amos

I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I…

— Francesco Carrozzini

My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention. Even though my work is appearing in magazines…

— David LaChapelle

Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a…

— Rosalind E. Krauss