My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
“A child’s why led to the development of the Polaroid camera. On a family vacation in the 1940s, Edwin Land’s three-year-old daughter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted. A photograph changes according… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Actually, no. I won't ever go digital. I work with thirty-five or large format. I like the hand-jobs, you know. And I… — Pansy Schneider-Horst Copy Share Image
Somehow Annie Flanders from the SoHo News heard I was doing pictures and was headed to Paris. She saw my worked, liked… — Roxanne Lowit Copy Share Image
I would love to be able to swim in the ocean in Malibu. But that is asking for a bikini shot. That's… — Mary-Kate Olsen Copy Share Image
With photography, everything is in the eye and these days I feel young photographers are missing the point a bit. People always… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you,… — Pedro Meyer Copy Share Image
Now everyone's main objective of taking photographs is to have a photograph for Twitter or Facebook. I find that troubling. If you… — Xaviera Simmons Copy Share Image
As far as digital technology has come, there's still one thing that digital cameras won't do: give you perfect color every time.… — Scott Kelby Copy Share Image
... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
“The mental Images were liquifying So I could no longer separate what I was recalling from the past from what I'd seen… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
“Artist communities love to bullshit each other and glad-hand one another, and there's no room for the crippling honesty of comedy. "I'm… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is manufactured; character is grown. Reputation is your photograph; There is a vast difference between… — Robert Stuart MacArthur Copy Share Image
Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They… — Walter Lippmann 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
Give half a dozen men the same camera, lenses and plates, and send them to the same place to do the same… — Frederick H. Evans Copy Share Image
I think of the medium as a people-to-people medium, not cameraman-to-people, not direction-to-people, not writers-to-people, but people-to-peopleYou can only involve an audience… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
While photography to Cartier-Bresson is constantly an intuitive process, it is never purely instinctive. It is founded on continuous intellection, on ceaseless… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Cinematography was incredibly foreign to me, so I read as much as I could about it. Once I figured out that it… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
What does a professional photojournalist do that others cannot? Depicting photo opportunities as if they are authentic, covering press conferences, or making… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
There in front of me was the Senator on the floor being held by the busboy. There was nobody else around, and… — Bill Eppridge Copy Share Image
Even a fellow with a camera has his favourite subjects, as we can see looking through the Kodak-albums of our friends. One… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism...… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I… — Pietra Brettkelly Copy Share Image
I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance,… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
“I'm not constantly looking for the "right" in my thoughts. I am, actually, scared of absolute “rights”. Therefore, I don't think my… — Korel Eraybar Copy Share Image
I was always interested in drawing and painting. I enrolled in college to study painting. But I didn't have any livelihood when… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
“I imagine that the essential gesture of the Operator is to surprise something or someone (through the little hole in the camera),… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing.… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
“It’s the difference between your wife’s passport photograph and the portraits you took when you got engaged. Both may have been created… — David duChemin Copy Share Image
Louis Caldera, the White House Aide who authorized the controversial photograph of Air Force One over Manhattan resigned on Friday. May I… — Seth Meyers Copy Share Image
Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image