I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises. — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
A lot of people have done that over the years. Many of the agencies today were started by photographers. It's a normal… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I've been really interested and inspired by Nan Goldin, the photographer. — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
I know that sometimes the chemistry just isn't there between the model, photographer, hair and make-up. It's nobody's fault and you just… — Linda Evangelista Copy Share Image
I had to leave some traces. In the beginning, I would give complete instructions to the photographer. In the '70s, people would… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘Aaaaah,’ with five vowels when… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
In 1968 I frequently would sit in a photo booth and practice self mirror images which I then documented photographically. Curious types… — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I do have strong convictions and political opinions, but I don't think it's necessary to imbue my photographic work with them. I… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my… — Erik Johansson Copy Share Image
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport. — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life. — Robert Capa Copy Share Image
I often wondered why I was attracted to certain landscapes and not others and why my photographs (and depictions by other artists)… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
