“There are mornings on this road trip as the early light gathers itself, something quite unexpected happens. My camera pushes me aside… — Stephen Braxton Thompson Copy Share Image
“Remember, the IMAGE of yourself and the lifestyle you're living on a daily basis appreciates with time, it doesn't depreciate. So imagine… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
When I first started making photo pieces it wasn't with the idea of a commitment to the medium. I didn't think I… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is manufactured; character is grown. Reputation is your photograph; There is a vast difference between… — Robert Stuart MacArthur Copy Share Image
Photography should be redefined. It's largely technical... Photography is just unbelievably limiting. I always think of David Bailey and all the fashion… — Peter Beard Copy Share Image
I was a consultant for Kodak back in the late 80's. There were engineers there who told me that in the future,… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
“Here's a good phrase for you to jot down: wherever you are, be there! Be there to absorb it. Take a picture… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
As humans, we need to question all these notions. What does freedom mean for us? What are our responsibilities? It takes one-250th… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
I want my images to achieve two things in this regard - to be an elegy to a world that is tragically… — Nick Brandt Copy Share Image
“Adobe Photoshop is the most widely-used professional graphics editing program in the world. The software provides hundreds of advanced features for creating… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
These days I think the composers of music influence me more than any photographers or visual creators. I see something exciting or… — Ralph Steiner Copy Share Image
I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of… — Leon Golub Copy Share Image
I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and… — William Albert Allard Copy Share Image
In my photographic work I was always especially entranced... by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“Congratulations! You've correctly discerned the difference between a sitting U.S. senator and a slightly moldy root vegetable. For your skill, you'll receive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Photographs have always been the tar baby of censors and obscenity laws. Literature can certainly (if it's any good) conjure up the… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
For a selfie, it's not about the pose, it's about you. There's a reason why you look great in the picture or… — Nigel Barker Copy Share Image
To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
A still photograph is something which you can always go back to. You can put it on your wall and look at… — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
One of the many ways of contesting level-zero, and one of the best, is to take photographs, an activity in which one… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
The photograph, now they are detached from their original surroundings, they are involved in a close world in which they only relate… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do.… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
“In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
What's great is that the picture is already taken before it goes public. It's in secret. The trust that develops from such… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
Some people don't even say hello. They come up and say, 'Can I take your picture?' and I'm, like, 'Why?' And they… — Henry Golding Copy Share Image
Many people in this world do jobs that are dangerous and where their life is at risk and they feel that there… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
The advice I would give to any photographer - young, old or in-between - is to explore anything visual because this is,… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements -… — Stephen Chow Copy Share Image
I use the camera as a dumb copying device that only serves to document whatever phenomenon appears before it through the conditions… — Douglas Huebler Copy Share Image
“As to “Aesthetic Considerations,” Ansel counseled, “A photograph that is merely a superficial record of the subject fails as an aesthetic expression… — Mary Street Alinder Copy Share Image
iStockphoto was revolutionizing the stock photography industry, establishing a whole new business model and democratizing stock art for everyone. It made sense… — Bruce Livingstone Copy Share Image
What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
To be sure the landscape can't run away, and yet I always fear that it may. [Sometimes] I must set up my… — Mario Giacomelli Copy Share Image
One thing that I try not to do is take pictures of homeless people or visibly low-income people - not because those… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Now there is such a closed loop between realness and commercialism that one has to question why do more and more and… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
What is important to my work is the individual picture. I photograph stories on assignment, and of course they have to be… — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design,… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
![“To be sure the landscape can't run away, and yet I always fear that it may. [Sometimes] I must set up my tripod, so I worry that the landscape may disappear the next second and I don't stop keeping an eye on it while I get prepared. Then, when pressing the shutter, I hold my breath. These moments…” quote by Mario Giacomelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce9/mario-giacomelli-46577_beautiful_to-be-sure-the-landscape-can-t-run-away_1074985.jpg)
