...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
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
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
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
What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the… — William Albert Allard Copy Share Image
This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
“A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
... the possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one… — Alex Webb 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
“You're a photographer, for Pete's sake. You need a photo of yourself front and center." "Well, yes, but..." A deep sigh followed… — Janice Thompson Copy Share Image
Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into… — Arnold Newman Copy Share Image
I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography. Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
I was the Playmate editor for 'Playboy' for two years. I produced two years' worth of centerfolds. I did everything on that,… — Holly Madison 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
When you respect somebody who has talent, whether it's a designer or a photographer, then you don't want to let yourself down… — Guido Palau Copy Share Image
What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
Making a decision to be a public figure isn't their choice right now. I don't think it's fair. Even though they're beautiful… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
Photographers talk about their shoot ratio. Like four to one, six to one, ten to one! Whatever, I'm, like, seven billion to… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and… — Peter C Bunnell Copy Share Image
[The photographer's task] is to describe the existing light... Chances are, if you believe the light, you're going to believe that the… — Henry Wessel, Jr Copy Share Image
The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he,… — Brassai Copy Share Image
When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do… — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise, and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones,… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
There is a great quote from a female writer. She said, 'If you don't break out in a sweat of fear when… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I thought I had a huge crush on a young Canadian photographer who was commissioned to go down to Australia to do… — Deborah Kara Unger Copy Share Image
![“My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees, they won't be seen - and still everyone will never forget having once looked at them.” quote by Alfred Stieglitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/530/alfred-stieglitz-13773_aim_my-aim-is-increasingly-to-make-my-photog_822023.jpg)
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