Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world. — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
We've had 20 years of mass murders throughout which I have repeatedly told CNN and our other media, if you don't want… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who… — Stephen Sprouse Copy Share Image
Two factors thus emerge as requisites of success in the field of creative photography. First, the subject must be photogenic. Second, its… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need. — Alex Colville Copy Share Image
Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are. — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
For each final photograph, I'll have shot loads of film. I suppose people don't see all that. But when someone looks at… — Catherine Yass Copy Share Image
You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath… — Harold Feinstein Copy Share Image
I have been exploring [Mexico City's] La Merced, [a public market famous for prostitution,] on and off for the last 23 years.… — Maya Goded Copy Share Image
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than have ever been… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Everything has the potential to be extraordinary, whether an old photograph, a book or a life. If you find it ordinary, you… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
Because each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted. A photograph changes according… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The photograph is a tool used to take you back to a certain point in one's life, to remember a face or… — Idris Khan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that… — Luc Tuymans Copy Share Image
I have a hunch that our obsession with photography arises from an unspoken pessimism; it is our nature to believe the good… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
I was out in California over the holidays and I was working with some photographs I took out there just now, actually,… — Michelle Stuart Copy Share Image
...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the… — Marshall McLuhan 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
Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image