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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
I'm such a jerk; it had never occurred to me that when we look at a photo from the front, the eyes… — Julio Cortazar 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
I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a… — Paul Strand 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
The idea of somebody being a fan of something I can totally understand. The idea of being followed around by cameras or… — Rachelle Lefevre Copy Share Image
Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I remember how difficult it was to perform certain operations on gelatine prints. A few weeks ago I asked my gelatine printer… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
“The photograph, then, becomes a representation of a representation of a disease that represents. In other words, in order to produce the… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
Sven Schumann did an interview with photographer Wolfgang Tillmans in Berlin addressing the question: What is photography today when everyone is a… — Olivier Zahm Copy Share Image
Images at their passionate and truthful best are as powerful as words can ever be. If they alone cannot bring change, they… — Cornell Capa Copy Share Image
I don't look at paparazzi photos. And most of my friends don't want to be photographed, so they walk four feet to… — Olivia Palermo Copy Share Image
It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer,… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
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