A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth. — Lisette Model Copy Share Image
Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography. — Martha Rosler Copy Share Image
When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history. — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
Everyone has a photographic memory, its just that some don't have the film. — DaniAlla And Her BFF Copy Share Image
Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art. — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives,… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
If done well, I believe the photographic representation of the human subject has the potential to be more revealing than what is… — Dawoud Bey Copy Share Image
I come at a subject from a profoundly photographic level. I am not interested in pictures that ultimately don't work as pictures. — Michael Light Copy Share Image
The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
I love bells, clocks, watches - and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the… — Charlotte Cotton Copy Share Image
The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a… — James Balog Copy Share Image
The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The photographic image has great possibilities. The magical photograph attempts to go beyond the immediate context of the recorded experience into the… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
I was sent to boarding school - a grim place. The only good thing the headmaster did for us was every Sunday… — Kevin Brownlow Copy Share Image
Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
“The photographer was installed in the back of an inconspicurous dry-goods store in the poorer neighbourhood of Warsaw. He seemed to know… — Jan Karski Copy Share Image
More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues.… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
“Ordinary language fixes the difference between handmade images like Goya's and photographs by the convention that artists "make" drawings and paintings while… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes! — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
