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
Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly,… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light.… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs. — Martin Parr 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
I never knew [Alfred Stieglitz] to make a trip anywhere to photograph. His eye was in him, and he used it on… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
You've got a number of things that take place that are peculiar to still photography. One: how a picture looks - what… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer” — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I would say digital technology probably doesn't have much impact on us so far. We've seen photographs of people from when they… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I want to let [my photographs] be something that comes from the model in her own way. I don't want to take… — Mario Sorrenti Copy Share Image
Words are a completely different form of expression. The word P-E-N-I-S is an entirely different form of communication than a photograph of… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love… — Horst P. Horst Copy Share Image
Yes, there are billions more photographers, and billions more photographs every day, but who's building up a point of view? Who's photographing… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
The original interest in making pictures that don't directly depict came around '97 or '98, when I felt there was such an… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
If you could see a photograph of what it took to make an advertising photograph - things you don't think about, like… — Sandy Skoglund Copy Share Image
Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
She was a natural blonde, with delicate hands and feet, and in her youthful photographs one saw a girl with mocking eyes… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is. — Alex Webb Copy Share Image
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