Photography has clarity in the same way that language has. A word is precise, but its meaning can change based on the… — Jason Fulford Copy Share Image
I have to be reminded, “’It’s your son’s birthday party. Bring a camera.’ And then, when I’m there, ‘Take a picture,’ because… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
It's certainly important to include text beside documentary photographs. Furthermore, it's important to include text in a way that's useful and accessible. — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always. — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
I'd have conversations with the camera crew about what was going on in the scene, so that they were prepared to shoot… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art… — Ernst Haas 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
I spent nine days shooting the film 'Camera Trap' in Nepal in 2014. The journey consisted of four flights, including a terrifying… — Mark Bonnar Copy Share Image
This is going to sound crazy, especially in America where there is a total inflation of the word "love," but in a… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer… — Sid Grossman Copy Share Image
These days it seems that physical truth can easily be rearranged, rethought, or re-created outright. Any image can be made pristine, all… — Jerome Liebling Copy Share Image
You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“Judging by the photograph it seemed like I hadn’t been there at all. As if it was my camera that had been… — Ida Løkås Copy Share Image
Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had,… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
I've discovered that being behind the camera is more fascinating. If I had to choose a profession today, it would have been… — Sonali Bendre Copy Share Image
When you're setting up your dating profile, choose the photos according to who you are today. A variety of recent shots that… — Whitney Wolfe Herd Copy Share Image
My favorite photos are the ones where people don't really see me. I'm more interested in looking at people looking at things. — Nick Zinner Copy Share Image
The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
I had a dark room in my bedroom. I was always taking apart cameras and putting them back together. I still am… — Danielle Colby Copy Share Image
I feel like an artist often turns the camera on themselves and on their own families to understand who they are. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Because I loved dance, I always need to be physical and moving, so photography that is more tactile made more sense. — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
“When you're in front of a camera, it's not the words that count but the way they sound. It hardly matters what… — Marc Levy Copy Share Image
Sometimes a camera comes out and people freeze up a little, and I'm like that with normal cameras, but with a film… — Barry Keoghan Copy Share Image
Most actors don't like doing still photo shoots, but I love them. I'm very comfortable, and I enjoy the clothes, looking good,… — Asin Copy Share Image
I don't have a favorite photo. As a photographer, I have attachments to each image. Not the one photo: the experience of… — Michael Muller Copy Share Image
“Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective.” — Katja Michael Copy Share Image
Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Painting requires skill. Photography is created by the camera, and one cannot fully control what the camera sees. So people take many… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
Some hate broccoli, some hate bacon I hate having my picture taken. How can your family claim to love you And then… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
