When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I don't need to know anything about the people I photograph, but it's important that I recognize something about myself in them. — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. — Matt Hardy Copy Share Image
Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
Although prison officials have long battled illegal cellphones, smartphones have changed the game. With Internet access, a prisoner can call up phone… — Kim Severson Copy Share Image
The documentation about the work isn't of real importance to me either. I've done lots of works without taking photographs. — Jan Dibbets Copy Share Image
My photographs are not really about photography. They are about editing. I use photography but they are all taken from the TV… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Making photographs can be a way for me to bring something up and into consciousness, something either shared or individual. — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera,… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have. — Henry Wessel, Jr Copy Share Image
The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true, only that I honestly don’t know… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow. — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of… — Peter Wollen Copy Share Image
It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason… — Stephen Chbosky 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
“When we fall in love with someone there's a moment when we take a picture of that person, an emotional snapshot, that… — Jim Geoghan Copy Share Image
No, I don't think you're ever an objective observer. By making a frame you're being selective, then you edit the pictures you… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
