Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia.… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I was living in Monterey, a place where the classic photographers - the Westons, Wynn Bullock and Ansel Adams - came for… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality. — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the… — Weegee Copy Share Image
The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
There is nothing mysterious about space-time. Every speck of matter, every idea, is a space-time event. We cannot experience anything or conceive… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that… — Bill Eppridge Copy Share Image
“She grabbed her clutch bag and circled her arms around his neck. "Caulder McCutchen, I'm really not sure what you are." He… — Mary J. McCoy-Dressel Copy Share Image
People have been reading photography as a true document, at the same time they are now getting suspicious. I am basically an… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I very strongly believe that if you go back to your roots, if you mine that inner territory, you can bring out… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
You have to pick the right tool for the point you're trying to make and there is no one solution. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
When I photograph, I do not think much. If you looked at my contacts you would ask yourself: "What is this guy… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
"Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex… — Jessie Tarbox Beals Copy Share Image
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. — Minor White Copy Share Image
Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like. — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
