The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some… — Reed Morano Copy Share Image
Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed. — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
There's things that you just couldn't do with an optical printer. Now, with digital compositing, most of the energy that goes into… — John Knoll Copy Share Image
As much as I'm not a journalist, I use journalism. And when you photograph a relationship, it's quite wonderful to let something… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I don't like taking a sly picture on the side. I like the direct approach. I want to be as honest to… — Jurgen Teller Copy Share Image
Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in… — August Sander Copy Share Image
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
“You can often get this effect by setting your lens to its smallest aperture - usually f22 or greater. You can shoot… — Dan Eitreim Copy Share Image
I teach a graduate photo seminar at Yale, and I sometimes feel so overwhelmed by the task the students set before themselves… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I started with the Oakland A's back in 1971 and there was press at every game and there were cameras on me… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
Between two fantasy alternatives, that Holbein the Younger had lived long enough to have painted Shakespeare or that a prototype of the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
... despite the limitations and problems inherent to photographic representation (and especially the representation of politics), it remains for me the most… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
“A society where feminine beauty is defined not by the human self on genuine intellectual and sentimental grounds, but by a computer… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad… — Walead Beshty Copy Share Image
Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in street photography. Also landscapes, wildlife photography, animals, portrait photography of people, and I calibrate my photos. I don't… — Stefanos Tsitsipas Copy Share Image
André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about… — Brassai Copy Share Image
I'm very moved by the fact that people are drawn into the pictures and that they do bring their own history and… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
After leaving college I got a job as a photo editor. Then, looking through my mum's photo archive inspired me to take… — Mary McCartney Copy Share Image
I like seeing the cameras because it helps visualize how the music people and the movie people teamed up. — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
“That’s different,” I said. And it was. A portrait is a picture where somebody gets to choose what you look like. How… — Carol Rifka Brunt Copy Share Image
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies. — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
I don't usually give out advice or recipes, but you must let the person looking at the photograph go some of the… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
I've been a photographer for my whole life and I've done everything with photography that I felt I could do, and I… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras. — Terry Richardson Copy Share Image
If you don't like my work in 'The Affair,' that's fine, but I'll stand by the work because I felt that everything… — Joshua Jackson Copy Share Image
I've photographed a lot of my good girlfriends, and it's given me a lot of anxiety because I don't want to let… — Amanda de Cadenet Copy Share Image
The art is the challenge which you must meet every day: the technique you should learn to control with time. The science… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
Someone said to me, early on in film school if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
One color alone means nothing. I acts as in a vacuum, with no other colors to relate to. It is only when… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
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