To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“Jean-Claude was watching me with his still eyes. I took a deep breath through my nose and let it out through my… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
It might take us a lifetime to find out what it is we need to say. Most of us fall into where… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
“Here was the real scandal of On Our Backs photography: We were women shooting other women — our names, faces, and bodies… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I don’t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film.… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
“Some individuals came right out and accused me of being a Neo-Orientalist (in a pejorative Edward Said sense of the term). So… — Waswo X Waswo Copy Share Image
So in terms of a large part of the job on our show specifically, what makes the show complex and interesting and… — Brian Baumgartner Copy Share Image
“In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they will… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
To know whether photography is or is not an art matters little. What is important is to distinguish between good and bad… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
Making photos is helpful of course to master the craft. To get comfortable with the camera. Learn what a camera can do… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
In my childhood I was obsessed with cameras but could not afford one. After much persuasion my father Harivansh Rai Bachchan bought… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
“Renee lifted her trusty Nikon and snapped a few shots of the car and the plate as it flew into the garage.… — Joshua Hood 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
i'm beginning to feel like this. caught the incredible sunshine just in the nick of time today on my walk. the wall… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
“Getting away from the media was the first step of breaking away from the crowds, and let me clearly state, not in… — Korel Eraybar Copy Share Image
"It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
“By shifting from the air to the ground, I sought to destroy any notion of scale as in Man Ray and Marcel… — Sophie Ristelhueber Copy Share Image
They took 3-D digital photographs of my entire body. I had to pose stark naked, assuming a kind of Spider-Man position. After… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
No matter how physically faint, a photograph involuntarily whisper of something exquisitely carnal. The weeks, the years, whatever stretches of time separating… — Max Kozloff Copy Share Image
I don't really enjoy being the center of attention, I find it hard. I think it's the celebrity culture you guys have… — Vicky Krieps Copy Share Image
To be sure the landscape can't run away, and yet I always fear that it may. [Sometimes] I must set up my… — Mario Giacomelli Copy Share Image
Photography was increasingly being seen as something outside the art world. As a sort of illustration. They just fired the director of… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I love to just listen and watch. I could happily watch a security camera at a store. Often during a day I'll… — Marshall Curry Copy Share Image
There was as big a reaction after the revelations about Assad's chemical weapons. Nevertheless, that photograph did strike a singular chord. Which… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
The fact is that the camera is literal if anything, which gives it something in common with a thermometer... Often the tension… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
Every once in a while I have this revelation like, "Wow, a hundred years ago the world wasn't black and white." It… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I think photography is so hard. To be working in video and photography the past 20 years - because I was doing… — Slater Bradley 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
“The hygienic slickness of our contemporary films, be they from Hollywood, Paris, or Sweden, is a contagious sickness that seems to be… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
“A paradox: the same century invented History and PHotography. But History is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Making photographs that dealt with the understanding of who I am as a gay man and dealt with the process of accepting… — Wardell Milan Copy Share Image
The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The magazine business is dying. It's a hard time for publishing. It does seem that everyone is much more opinionated now. I… — Barry Blitt Copy Share Image
![“By shifting from the air to the ground, I sought to destroy any notion of scale as in Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp's Elevage de Poussiere. It's a picture which fascinates me and which I kept in my mind throughout the time I was working out there [in Kuwait]. The constant shift between the infinitely…” quote by Sophie Ristelhueber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f17/sophie-ristelhueber-61167_photography_by-shifting-from-the-air-to-the-ground-i_2951451.jpg)
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