A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
I have a terror of things being nice and knowing what to expect. Making a photograph is a license to have experiences… — Katy Grannan Copy Share Image
In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I was never in a school situation where someone said, This is the way a photograph is supposed to look. I was… — Robert Heinecken 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
Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Every now and then it feels like it's just been a few days ago, a few weeks ago since we got started;… — Eddie Montgomery Copy Share Image
Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions. — David Bailey Copy Share Image
Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
My mother said that when I was young I was constantly saying, Look at this - Look at that. I think that… — Ruth Orkin Copy Share Image
Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and… — Lynsey Addario Copy Share Image
I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I started out, in the mid-'70s, taking photographs of rock bands that I liked but not because I really wanted to photograph… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce. — Jenna McCarthy Copy Share Image
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
