Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Documentaries are inherently instinctual; you're constantly moment to moment, determining what the best place for the camera is to tell the story,… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
“I’ve said this so many times… It’s not about the gear. It’s about the image. It’s about the story you tell with… — Dan Bailey Copy Share Image
I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
“To sum up - i f you want to be more creat ive, star t loving yoursel f enough to give yoursel… — Scott Bourne Copy Share Image
A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I looked at a lot of photos from Hollywood in the '20s, photographs of silent movies being filmed all over the world… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
I don't think it is even possible to define what a good photograph is, so it is difficult to instruct anybody how… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Photography is a hobby born out of my time in undergrad at USC. It is more of a pleasurable hobby, a stress… — Lee Thompson Young Copy Share Image
A [spatial, temporal] work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in… — Dan Graham Copy Share Image
Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and… — William Henry Jackson Copy Share Image
Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
George Lazenby is no one's favorite James Bond, but for me the anonymity at the center of this lavish production only serves… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
For me making a digital photo is like making a watercolor... It's not a painting, and it's not a photo. It's something… — Art Wolfe Copy Share Image
When I first started to take photos Idpull the black cloth over my head and feel totally secure in the knowledge that… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also… — Giles Duley Copy Share Image
I've got the luxury of being able to work largely alone, so I don't need to communicate difficult creative classeas to other… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
The act of photography is that of phenomenological doubt to the extent that it attempts to approach phenomena from any number of… — Douglas Huebler Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
“The very weather seems to have a quality of the past, faded weather like that of old photographs.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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