I suppose the primary intention of a documentary photographer is to document facts. My work often does this but it is not… — Richard Billingham Copy Share Image
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, don’t see-see only… — Leon Levinstein Copy Share Image
I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what… — Cornell Capa Copy Share Image
Since the background is as important as the subject, you mustn't let it default by chance. You must control not only vertical… — Jay Maisel 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
It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
My aspiration isn't to be some fashion photographer or anything. I think that's a space that's occupied by people that have a… — C. J. Wilson Copy Share Image
As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see.… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
Being a digital photographer I'm in awe of the older generation of photographers who created all those iconic cinematic style images on… — Paul Walker Copy Share Image
It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I started teaching in '76 and I'd been a photographer at the Geographic for six years. But prior to being at the… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
The greatest compliment that I know how to pay another photographer is to say, 'I never would have made that photograph myself.… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
The neatest part of this book I'm working on - to me - are the pictures that show the process... Because photographers...… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
There is more in art, with an apology to that much abused word, as applied to photography, than startling display lines, on… — Gertrude Kasebier Copy Share Image
The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental… — Roman Vishniac Copy Share Image
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I think that the photographer must completely control his picture and bring to it all his personality, and in this area most… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
...and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive… — W. Eugene Smith 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
The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have… — Jacques-Henri Lartigue Copy Share Image
Like most portrait photographers, I aim to record the instant the subject is not thinking about being photographed, striving to get beyond… — Martin Schoeller Copy Share Image
A close friend of mine, Annie Leibovitz, who I've known for forty years, photographs celebrities every single day of the week but… — Lawrence Schiller Copy Share Image
I made 10 times as many images as the other students," he says of the early years. "I destroyed all those negatives… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic.… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
Something catches your eye, or your interest. You attack it in some way or observe it in some way, and try to… — Elliott Erwitt 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
I'm a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who had that whole "decisive moment" approach to taking pictures, of having… — Nick Zinner Copy Share Image
I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their… — Linda Evangelista Copy Share Image
My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially… — Bill Skarsgard 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
As I progressed further with my project, it became obvious that it was really unimportant where I chose to photograph. The particular… — George A Tice Copy Share Image
When you shoot, that is opportunity number one to make a statement. When you edit, you have opportunity number two to make… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
