Even in the nineties, when it was mad and there were photographers all around the house, it never occurred to me to… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
People often say, 'You don't go to fashion shows? What kind of photographer are you? What the hell is the wrong with… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
...a photographer must be aware of and concerned about the words that accompany a picture. These words should be considered as carefully… — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors,… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for… — Minor White Copy Share Image
The word “photography” can be interpreted as “writing with light” or “drawing with light.” Some photographers are producing beautiful photographs by drawing… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
Having exhausted every possibility at the moment when he was coming full circle, Antonino realised that photographing photographs was the only course… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is… — Vilem Flusser Copy Share Image
A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
I don't care about fashion at all. And I know it's kind of a dodgy thing to be a fashion photographer, a… — Jurgen Teller Copy Share Image
Photography, of course, is the perfect medium for the investigation. It can reveal the truth of present day specifics and particularities, while… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
To be a photographer is to become aware of visible appearances and at the same time acquire from them an education in… — Raoul Hausmann Copy Share Image
I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
The [concentration camps] were swarming with photographers and every new picture of horror served only to diminish the total effect. Now, for… — Robert Capa Copy Share Image
...everything around us, dead or alive, in the eyes of a crazy photographer mysteriously takes on many variations, so that a seemingly… — Josef Sudek Copy Share Image
Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Even though the industry is very big and there's lots of money, when it gets down to it, whether it's a photographer… — Guido Palau Copy Share Image
There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
Being a photographer helps me see the work differently. I always walk away seeing things differently than when I stare at them… — Reed Krakoff Copy Share Image
...insight, vision, moments of revelation. During those rare moments something overtakes the man and he becomes the tool of a greater Force;… — Minor White Copy Share Image
C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The main thing is to study pictures and stop listening to the pontifictaions of photographers. Photographers aren't oracles of wisdom. If they're… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar,… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
I think that it's workshops, honestly, that have kept me keen about photography, and about my photography. My career as a workshop… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges… — Brassai Copy Share Image
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