If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I'm married to Kevin, a photographer whose career has put him on the campaign trail with presidential candidates and sent him on… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
I think what inspires me is in a constant state of flux...it's easier to stick to photographers and perhaps cinematographers, though the… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
'Tough' meant it was an uncompromising image, something that came from your gut, out of instinct, raw, of the moment, something that… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to… — Eikoh Hosoe Copy Share Image
After his hockey days, my dad became a photographer, and a really good one, at that. He used to shoot the Expos… — Martin Brodeur Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me.… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
I laughed at the whole Cannes Film Festival thing because it didn't feel real. I remember getting off the red-eye when I… — Liv Tyler Copy Share Image
I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture... but it is an engagement with… — Sarah Charlesworth Copy Share Image
On my YouTube channel, I put up 3-4 videos a week, and I spend a lot of money to maintain that content.… — Steve Aoki Copy Share Image
A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
It's nothing but a matter of seeing, thinking, and interest. That's what makes a good photograph. And then rejecting anything that would… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
Nowadays, photographers start out with ideas, and their photos become the expression of an idea. To my way of thinking, a photo… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
When everything that is called art was well and truly riddled with rheumatism, the photographer lit the thousands of candles whose power… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
When I'm approaching a water jump, with dozens of photographers waiting for me to fall in, and hundreds of spectators wondering what's… — Anne, Princess Royal Copy Share Image
My advice to photographers is to get out there in the field and take photographs but also if they are students to… — Martine Franck Copy Share Image
Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
Max Kozloff said to me one day, ‘You’re not really a photographer. You do photography, but you do it for your own… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
I like to move as much as possible and look at reflections, weird angles, subjects from airplanes and cranes. I feel sorry… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
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