Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.) — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
I think I just do what I feel is good to do. Everybody can give me their suggestions, but at the end,… — Franca Sozzani Copy Share Image
One of the photographers was like, "Can you stop talking and try to look sexy for a minute?" — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
"Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The list of photographs that I am missing while I sit on airport runways, teach classes or spend hours in the studio… — Brian Ulrich Copy Share Image
“A great photographer show off his talent & awards on facebook. An amateur photographer show off his work and skill on facebook.… — Junior Ming Copy Share Image
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There's always a time in any series of work where you get to a certain point and your work is going steadily… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
Aside from my modelling, by the early Nineties I was also starting to work as a photographer, which I loved. — Janice Dickinson Copy Share Image
My argument against the set-up picture is that it leaves the matter of content to the imagination of the photographer, a faculty… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund — David Alan Harvey Copy Share Image
I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it… — Melanie Brown Copy Share Image
I want to allow others to reveal and celebrate aspects of themselves that are usually hidden. My camera is a witness. It… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
“If life worked on auto mode then there manual mode for photography would have never existed.” — Deeksha Mittal Copy Share Image
Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
When I first started making photo pieces it wasn't with the idea of a commitment to the medium. I didn't think I… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet.Later, next to the South… — Robert Adam Copy Share Image
