It's strange. At some point in your career, the situation between yourself and the camera reverses. For a certain number of years,… — George Michael Copy Share Image
The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print.… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls.… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I think technology has advanced so far now that there are some cameras on the market that give film a run for… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
I think that deprecation part is a very important aspect because when someone looks into themselves, if they're going to be honest,… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
I did photography in summer camp; I did it in high school. The only hard decision I've had to make was whether… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
I shot many scenes of Hamburg, albums full of postcard motifs, and I discarded almost all of them. I ride my bike… — Fatih Ak?n Copy Share Image
I don't photograph for other people. I love an audience, mind you. Once I've got them there, then I love an audience.… — Brett Weston Copy Share Image
We are surrounded by pictures; we have an abundance of theories about them, but it doesn't seem to do us any good.… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The camera is a remarkable thing, you think, with its ability to transform the mundane into an immortal moment able to travel… — Greg Bottoms Copy Share Image
Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
Modelling was never a career option for me; it was always a hobby. I was modelling while I was pursuing my B.Tech,… — Kriti Sanon Copy Share Image
I hadn't performed or been in the public eye for about 16 years. When my husband passed away, I was obliged to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
People often find it surprising that actors find photo shoots difficult, because you're very concerned about what's going on externally in those… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with… — Luigi Ghirri Copy Share Image
The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and… — Jeffrey Pierce Copy Share Image
The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
I think of scientific veracity as an idea from the past - the scientists say it is so, the photo is proof.… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I think there is an element of magic in photography - light, chemistry, precious metals - a certain alchemy. You can wield… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
Photos tend to organize chaos, to define what we're doing here. It is essential that individuals' voices depict the world around us,… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
I do not want [photography] explained to me in terms of... formulas, learned, but so hopelessly unsatisfying. I do not want my… — Jacob August Riis Copy Share Image
But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Essentially, in photography, I think on two levels: one emotional and the other technical. The emotional impact has to do with looking… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
There's always a time in any series of work where you get to a certain point and your work is going steadily… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
A picture that is ghostly and silent can be more eloquent and less clichéd than a noisier photo-journalistic approach and I have… — Simon Norfolk Copy Share Image
I always like to meet the people I'm going to photograph. I need to have a conversation. I need to feel a… — Mario Sorrenti Copy Share Image
Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
When I started working in film, I loved photography, I loved the image, I loved telling the story within a frame, but… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
“Whenever possible, Salgado lives for a while with the people he photographs. “I tell a little bit of my life to them,… — Sebastião Salgado Copy Share Image
Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Now if you look at the London 'Times,' you'll find that with quite a number of the photographs, you touch them, and… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
People coming up and saying something nice is always welcome. But when you're being secretly photographed, that's not so nice. I would… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic)… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Today, 18 out of 45 customers entering a restaurant ask whether they can sit somewhere else. From that point on, their digital… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
I see the beauty of people and the human soul in the pictures I take. And though the circumstances of some of… — G.M.B. Akash Copy Share Image
The landscape is one of the kinds that I think, at least this body of work is the least selfish of the… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
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