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
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
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
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
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
Color really doesn't have interaction if it's full of colors. It's the interaction or relationship among or between colors that makes a… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children laugh and show off their… — Jill Greenberg Copy Share Image
The process must be concealed from - non-existent for - the photographer, who by definition need think of the art in the… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about… — Brassai Copy Share Image
[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the… — Ernest Hemingway 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
As a photographer, I don't really have a view of the world in general. Someone taking pictures for 'National Geographic' might. Each… — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
There were just moments of the punk scene and I realized that I had to capture it. There was also this photographer… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this,… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s… — Weegee Copy Share Image
For me what photographers say about their photos doesn’t have any importance. For me it is just enough to look at the… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
Because of reality television and all these celebrities thinking they can be designers, everyone imagines that they can just become a designer,… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I'm not aggressive… — Bill Cunningham Copy Share Image
I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream,… — James Agee Copy Share Image
One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension… — Carl Mydans Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same… — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
What you see is real - but only on the particular level to which you've developed your sense of seeing. You can… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
The first time, I usually skim off the outer layer and end up with photographs that are fairly obvious. The second time,… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
(1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn… — Shomei Tomatsu Copy Share Image
The changes taking place in this part of Europe are enormous and very rapid. One world is disappearing. I am trying to… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
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