If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I don't shoot kittens with balls of wool. I don't shoot sunsets. What draws me? Ironic, surreal, unexplained, timely moments. — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
I never do anything for the camera. It's my job to pretend the camera's not there. I'm never moving for the camera. — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When you take a photo at 1/1000 of a second, the moment can become an eternal fact, an eternal moment. So we… — Eikoh Hosoe Copy Share Image
“I take a picture, but it's not about who is in the picture or the background of it. It's about the memories… — Kayla Davis Copy Share Image
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
The only advantage of the CD is that you have a booklet that can tell a bit of a story, but the… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Don’t think about the marketplace, what sells or what… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, it’s sort of a magpie aesthetic—I just go and pick up… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Wilderness, to me, is a spiritual necessity. The mysterious spiritual experience of being close to natural restored my soul [after the death… — Clyde Butcher Copy Share Image
The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography. — Richard Kalvar Copy Share Image
I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens. — Feist Copy Share Image
My aesthetic is derived from my point of view which is one of optimism and hope. The camera became a conduit for… — Mike Ruiz Copy Share Image
“The moment is altered as soon as I try to capture it, so for me, it’s impossible.” How true, I thought. Moments… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more,… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
“Sameness... the new ‘unique’. So photographers seem to be flocking toward simple, easy to understand ‘solutions’ instead of flocking toward hard work,… — Don Giannatti Copy Share Image
When I'm taking pictures I even forget that I have a camera. When I shoot I forget about everything. Light comes, death… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
For me there is a reluctance to be in front of cameras. I love making music but with that comes a lot… — Daniel Powter Copy Share Image
This is taking [photos] from everybody - the entire collective memory of what the Earth looks like - and linking all of… — Blaise Aguera y Arcas Copy Share Image
I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where… — Abelardo Morell Copy Share Image
People are not used to seeing skiing on water, so I can understand why they think it is fake. That's why we… — Candide Thovex Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Photography is usually viewed as a solitary activity, but the truth of the matter is that people love to shoot together, compare… — Scott Kelby Copy Share Image
Take criticism, smash it into dust, add color, and use it to take breathtaking pictures of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of… — Mathew Gray Gulber Copy Share Image
The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
For me a nude photograph should be erotic, not devoid of emotion. The body is a sensual thing, sensuality being one of… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
DARE from Lexi and candy lol oh I had to take a pic dressed in men clothing with a ninja pose and… — Sheya Copy Share Image
Designing the technical aspects of my camera movement for me is very important. I want the camera to be a big part… — James Wan Copy Share Image
I was probably about 10 years old when I said to Mom, 'I'd really like to pursue a career in front of… — Dacre Montgomery Copy Share Image
[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact. — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
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