It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times.… — Brassai Copy Share Image
I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
It's disgusting. Why would people idolize someone who doesn’t do anything and saying you're a model/photographer with a digital camera and photoshop… — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it's true. I would never choose a… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I hate it when people say, I'm an artist. I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I totally disagree with the belief that nature was only made for the use of people. Human beings are not the center… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
There are many aspects about what and why we photograph: visual pleasure, personal empathy, intellectual stimulation, technical excellence, etc. Serious photographers and… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it… — Dennis Stock Copy Share Image
Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly,… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn… — Garry Winogrand 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 have learned that the camera is, as is often said, a powerful weapon. And the wielder of that weapon can be… — Waswo X. Waswo Copy Share Image
Fossils work almost the same way as photography as a record of history. The accumulation of time and history becomes a negative… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I… — Keith Lazelle Copy Share Image
Fashion was very important to me because I could practice my acting skills, I could practice working with the camera, I could… — Sergei Polunin 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
The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Nowadays everyone has a camera and the Internet means everything is instantly accessible. Unlike some photographers, I don't see this as a… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
Well, I talk about one moment in the book, but I don't know if that's my moment of discovery. It was a… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
The public is being spoiled by good technical quality photographs in magazines, on television, in the movies, and they have become bored.… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
“How can we hope, after all, to see a tree or rock or clear north sky if we do not adopt a… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Let us not be afraid to allow for post-visualization. By post-visualization I refer to the willingness on the part of the photographer… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a… — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
I always feel safe with a woman photographer. I feel that no matter how they interpret something, they understand all sides of… — Amber Valletta Copy Share Image
The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training,… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
Some have said that if you take a great picture in color and take away the color, you'll have a great black-and-white… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
...through this photographic eye you will be able to look out on a new light-world, a world for the most part uncharted… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
“The sun creates your shadow; the mirror takes your shadow into itself; if you take a photo of the mirror, your shadow… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I see no difference between my pictures that people consider amusing and the rest. To me, it's all serious work - they're… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it… — Deborah Turbeville Copy Share Image
Once I became a photographer, it stopped me being scared or intimidated by gangs of young men of whatever stripe. Initially, I… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
