Black people Quote by Amy Sherald

“...every beautiful and strange event made more poignant for having been photographed.”

— Haven Kimmel

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

— Susan Sontag

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw…

— Matthew Modine

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

— Steven Pinker

There's this idea that photography is a kind of testimony and therefore we're forbidden to tell lies with it. I think that's nonsense. Photography…

— Frank Horvat

If I stage things too much and nothing changes in the act of photographing, then I might as well have not taken the picture:…

— Justine Kurland

Whatever pictures are put into the world, the balance needs to be readdressed, it needs to be observed. That's why I am also really…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

— Imogen Cunningham

I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the…

— Richard Avedon

Getting photographs is not the most important thing. For me it's the act of photographing. It's enlightening, therapeutic and satisfying, because the very process…

— Michael Kenna

Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again I'm holding…

— Richard Avedon

I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a tragedy. Because…

— Joel Meyerowitz