Photographing Quotes · Page 3

There's nothing worth photographing more than 100 yards from the car

— Brett Weston

I’m past photographing to see what things look like photographed.

— Sally Mann

Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.

— Judith Butler

...my way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things...

— Sebastiao Salgado

[ My time and our common culture] it's what I'm photographing, and I'm very involved with that.

— Sam Abell

I love people, and photographing people is something I hope I never get tired of.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

I know now that before I take a picture I have to be sure about how I feel about the subjects. What…

— Tina Barney

There are many images which I miss on purpose. I've done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn't change…

— Jim Goldberg

I really knew when I started photographing I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other…

— Mary Ellen Mark

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

— Edward Weston

“It was as if my eyes were a camera and I was photographing the moment, knowing that I would keep the photograph…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

I like capturing stuff that is disappearing - that’s the point of photography. What I am photographing is an imaginary place that…

— Tim Walker

Over the years, I have perfected the art of dancing and photographing at the same time: it's a great double act. If…

— Martin Parr

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the…

— Annie Leibovitz

It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are…

— Eve Arnold

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the…

— Anonymous

I had done some work when I was starting in with photography on westerns, and photographing them was the greatest pleasure I…

— George Stevens

I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in. Whether you're photographing for yourself, for…

— Steve McCurry

When you work fast, what you put in your pictures is what your brought with yoiu - your own ideas and concepts.…

— Sebastiao Salgado

I never work with a screen. Other photographers have this black thing around, and they go back and look at it. I'd…

— Juergen Teller

While I have been photographing for over 48 years now, there is so little time for me to be actually photographing that…

— Walter Paul Bebirian

It adds up, but I deem it all necessary, even the camera gear. I enjoy photographing the otherworldly colors and shapes presented…

— Aron Ralston

When you start photographing yourself, you are going to be amazed at all the things you find out about yourself, and you'll…

— Bunny Yeager

Recently, I can't seem to take a straight photograph without thinking that what I am photographing won't be the final image -…

— Idris Khan

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing…

— Eve Arnold

It's impossible for me to go into a room or look at a location without a part of my brain photographing it…

— Sydney Pollack

All I'm doing is photographing. When I was working on The Animals, I was working on a lot of other things too.…

— Garry Winogrand

I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay…

— Larry Clark

I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my…

— Richard Avedon

I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept…

— Stephen Shore

There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're…

— Bruce Barnbaum

For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised…

— Mira Nair

I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater.…

— Kim Weston

Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many…

— Ryan McGinley

Oddly, I'd been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them…

— Lisa Kristine

[The most important factor in making a good picture is] to know who or what you are photographing. It is not about…

— Mona Kuhn

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is…

— William Eggleston

If you are bored with your own photography you are really bored with what you are photographing, so pick a new subject…

— Bill Jay

I'm always trying to make a connection with the person I'm photographing. I don't want to just come away with a shot…

— Mary McCartney