For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also… — Giles Duley Copy Share Image
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
This is a photograph, so it is as you see: there are no lies and no deceptions. One can detect here, elevated… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
The model is just one element of the photograph. There's also the location, the light - all that junk. It helps if… — Richard Kern Copy Share Image
I look at the field, and I think about the boy who just made the touchdown. I think that these are the… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I dug myself a garden, and a stray cat I grew to like would come around to sulk in the corn. I… — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
... in the eyes of its visitors, Venice has no reality of its own. Anyone visiting the place has already seen so… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
Steven Meisel is completely consumed with what interests him. He does what he wants to do, and when something doesn't interest him,… — Polly Allen Mellen Copy Share Image
When I saw photographs of children murdered by the Fascist, I felt furious pity. When the supporters of Franco talked of Red… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you.… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
'Changes in Latitudes' began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see.… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
Most photographers go and photograph something that they see, that exists, and that somebody else has created - they document it. But… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
No matter how physically faint, a photograph involuntarily whisper of something exquisitely carnal. The weeks, the years, whatever stretches of time separating… — Max Kozloff Copy Share Image
A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, don’t see-see only… — Leon Levinstein Copy Share Image
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I try to see the whole woman,' Eddie said to Hannah. 'Of course I recognize that she's old, but there are photographs… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“In taking that photograph, I understood something I will never forget: how I wished to arrest all the beauty that came before… — Elizabeth Ross Copy Share Image
I've found that photographs from different genres can be extraordinarily generous with each other. I started out photographing myself in a landscape,… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph,… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Literally, no man ever sees himself as others see him. No photograph or reflection ever gives us the same slant on ourselves… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ?… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
To my surprise, I recognized Dimitri Belikov-Rose's boyfriend-among those doing crowd control. He was easy to spot since he was almost always… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Well, of course the general idea was dreamed up by the advertising agency and so my job was to realize that. And… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
... [L]ess than at any time does a simple reproduction of reality tell us anything about reality. A photograph of the Krupp… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I went back to photography in the 1990s. But from the 60s to the 90s I didn't really take any photographs at… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The first time, I usually skim off the outer layer and end up with photographs that are fairly obvious. The second time,… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
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