There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter. — Ralph Steiner Copy Share Image
The camera is, in a sense, both a way to get close, and to break free. It is a testimony to independence… — Elinor Carucci Copy Share Image
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal Copy Share Image
I believe in intuition and approaching things as instant gratification. Just do the things you want to do, make the kind of… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
The visual quality of the cameras now is such that you can shoot with available light, and if people are willing to… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I know now that before I take a picture I have to be sure about how I feel about the subjects. What… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers... They say, 'We came to liberate… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
The most prevalent way of working in photography right now is project oriented: you go after an idea. I like the old… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
“Everything that flickered could be made permanent. That was what drew him to photography, what made every painstaking step worth it: the… — Katie Roiphe Copy Share Image
Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating,… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
So I always get in some kind of situation where next thing I know it's four a.m. and I go, uh oh,… — Lita Ford Copy Share Image
I wanted to grow in terms of making pictures, not adapting to new software and technology. But that's the game now. — Gregory Heisler Copy Share Image
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The digital image annihilates photography while solidifying, glorifying and immortalizing the photographic. — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
I don't have to think much when I take a photo on my iPhone. I sort of see the iPhone medium as… — Diana Silvers Copy Share Image
...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
From running around as an assistant to having the camera following for you is a big step, especially for someone like me… — Jackky Bhagnani Copy Share Image
Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a… — Eadweard Muybridge Copy Share Image
I love to photograph people in their own environment. It offers clues to what's important in their lives. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
“I considered. As Tatsu noted, if word got out, the efficacy of the camera network would be compromised. But there was more.” — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
What happens is that every August photographers camp out in Hyannis Port. So anytime I go down to the beach, or go… — John F. Kennedy Jr Copy Share Image
We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room. — Minor White Copy Share Image
I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography? — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
People didn't object to me taking their photo. It was something everybody thought was their due: to be King for a Day,… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks… — Mona Kuhn Copy Share Image
I love my cameras. I love contact sheets. I love the visceral thing of film and I'm not positive that I can… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
“...the thing about portraits is, you need to show people the way they want to be seen. And I prefer to show… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have. — Henry Wessel, Jr Copy Share Image
“Over time his images of the baby, like photographs handled too often, had worn down and creased, lost their definition. ” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
In some way, a photo is like a stolen kiss. In fact a kiss is always stolen, even if the woman is… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
If 5 seconds of smile can make a photograph more beautiful then just imagine, if you keep always smiling, how beautiful your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
