This is an early digital photograph for me. I started shooting digital some 10 years ago. I had been using Kodachrome for… — Bruno Barbey Copy Share Image
With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist… — Wendy Ewald Copy Share Image
In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. An actual physical darkness. And it's… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I love the idea of engaging the object, whether it be architecture or a piece of good graphic design, or a good… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Over the years I have photographed thousands of people. I have never stopped being curious and trying to discover new worlds. I… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The relationship I have with my mother now, and photographing her in front of the grave, it opens up discussions, and dealings… — Jurgen Teller Copy Share Image
Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I don't even know where mine [Oscar award] is. My mother has hidden it because everybody who comes in wants to take… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Photographs should celebrate the contingent, the spontaneous, the incomplete, the fortuitous. Direct, unblinking vision should be coupled with deliberate indifference as to… — Douglas McCulloh Copy Share Image
By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I went to a Radiohead concert with Mr. Aaron Paul and became instantly hip. He's a great tweeter and took a photograph… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
Photographs can be forms of recruitment, ways of bringing the viewer into the military, as it were. In this way, they prepare… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
When I started photographing my boyfriend of years ago, Brian, I realised I had no right to photograph other people having sex… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I want to make photographs whose very ambiguity provokes thought, rather than cuts it off prematurely. I want to make pictures that… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my… — Marc Riboud Copy Share Image
For me, making a photograph is mostly an intellectual process of understanding people or cities and their historical and phenomenological connections. At… — Thomas Struth Copy Share Image
It seems to me that no one picture can ever be a final summation of a personality. There are so many facets… — Arnold Newman Copy Share Image
I wasn't familiar with Patti [Smith ]much at all. When I was asked to photograph her, my wife said, "Oh my God,… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I often had to pass over photographs because in a mass of animals invariably one would be wandering in the wrong direction,… — Art Wolfe Copy Share Image
We don't take photographs with our cameras, we take them with our hearts and our minds. They are a reflection of ourselves...wha… — Arnold Newman Copy Share Image
The person who looks at a photograph as a complete picture, unable to say anything about anything except the facts which existed… — Francis Meadow Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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