For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray… — Wilhelm Rontgen Copy Share Image
I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
I don't have to be a pretty face. I've done that, but now it's important and liberating to be on the other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
Be like a photographer. Get your vision right, keep yourself focus, zoom in on your goals & you'll capture success that'll become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
I am often asked which picture is my favorite. This is like asking a mother which child she likes the most. — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
When we were making Flickr, we called it the 'Eyes of the World.' The idea was that everybody, everywhere, is looking. It… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
Just think how minimal somebody's family album is. But you start looking at one of them, and the word everybody will use… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I'm designing a seductive frame to attract an audience to a subject they would otherwise ignore. And that's what I do in… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
Of course, the whole photographic process has been made much faster, cleaner and far more accessible to people by digital innovations, which… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Can the vast technology beneath our gaze be anything but a representation? Any optical artifact... The city panorama is a theoretical (ie… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
I don't know the technology of digital cameras but apparently the shutter speed is so fast, and so high a resolution, that… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life... I realised I… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
“Do you want to best commercial photographer then James Broome photography offers excellent quality of Commercial photos in Manchester UK. We have… — James Broome Photography Copy Share Image
No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
“Nathaniel Belasco had photographed his wife between 1977 and 1983, using one of the first twenty-by-twenty-four Polaroids capable of capturing the tiniest… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
A camera must be part of me - an extra limb capable of freezing a situation without complicated preparation. — Antony Armstrong-Jones Copy Share Image
Life comes and goes so you have to take advantage of it by taking pics of good times and hanging out with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible. — Andreas Gursky Copy Share Image
“Photography has saved me from going down, a completely different road. I can imagine if I wasn't photography, that I don't know… — Denny Wiranda Copy Share Image
Photography was inspired by painting, cinema by theatre and photography, I don't believe that any new art form was ever created from… — David Cage Copy Share Image
The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
You can photograph anything. You can be inside, outside, doesn't matter, you're controlling the light. It gives you great flexibility. That was… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street,… — Minor White Copy Share Image
The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I always prefer photographing in available light – or Rembrandt-light I like to call it – so you get the natural modulations… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
When I'm photographing, I look for the personal style with which something is worn - sometimes even how an umbrella is carried… — Bill Cunningham Copy Share Image
The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
