All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a… — Burk Uzzle Copy Share Image
When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There are many aspects about what and why we photograph: visual pleasure, personal empathy, intellectual stimulation, technical excellence, etc. Serious photographers and… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it… — Dennis Stock Copy Share Image
No, I don't think you're ever an objective observer. By making a frame you're being selective, then you edit the pictures you… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at… — Abelardo Morell Copy Share Image
Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly,… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
The fact is that the camera is literal if anything, which gives it something in common with a thermometer... Often the tension… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting… — Ron Perlman Copy Share Image
See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
If you want me to explain the picture, if you put it in reality, then the mystery goes away. The situation just… — Eva Fuka Copy Share Image
People have been reading photography as a true document, at the same time they are now getting suspicious. I am basically an… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Sometimes, we have to turn our camera to a mirror to shoot something, and people think, 'Oh, that's very stylish.' Yes it… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that got me into working with photos. The main thing is that I saw both what… — John Heartfield Copy Share Image
The reasons why images are so primal and people immediately relate to it is that we are exquisitely engineered to interpret information… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Fossils work almost the same way as photography as a record of history. The accumulation of time and history becomes a negative… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
“Given my antipathy for the paparazzi, she thinks it’s hysterical that I’m so attached to my cameras. But to me, what I… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally,… — Bjork Copy Share Image
“Weston, having been born in Chicago, was raised with typical, well-grounded, mid-western values. On his 16th birthday, his father gave him a… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
I was asked by a student what my most significant accomplishment was at National Geographic, after thirty years, and I said that… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I'll be in # Jharkhand along with Kaustav Narayan Niyogi, who is directing the film and my director of photography for location… — Pooja Bhatt Copy Share Image
I was asked, "How did you get pictures that look like this?" It doesn't happen today because now everybody has to have… — Max Vadukul Copy Share Image
I had done some work when I was starting in with photography on westerns, and photographing them was the greatest pleasure I… — George Stevens Copy Share Image
“life isn’t black or white. There isn’t only one picture that’s perfect. It’s about piecing together shades of gray to make something… — Barbara Delinsky Copy Share Image
For years my only purpose was to do documentary photos for magazines, without any idea that they were part of a larger… — Hiroshi Hamaya Copy Share Image
A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I… — Keith Lazelle Copy Share Image
I kept shooting but started making drafts of the work, essentially spending a few days a month sequencing and editing, hanging things… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
Sometimes you meet someone, and they seem great, they seem exactly what you're thinking of for the role, and then you put… — Andrew Bujalski Copy Share Image
Because I'm a bald, dim-witted writer, people think I couldn't possibly be her husband, so they occasionally confuse me for someone more… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
The event is placed at such a distance, and contained, that these images move beyond the context in which they were made,… — Jean-Marc Bustamante Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to know when you're crossing the boundary. I hate the word boundary because I never think about it when… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
A lot of people have done that over the years. Many of the agencies today were started by photographers. It's a normal… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
