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Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence. — Robert Adams
A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept. — Ansel Adams
A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative. — Ansel Adams
The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence… — Alexey Brodovitch
Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's Bazaar and at… — Alexey Brodovitch
It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph. — Alexey Brodovitch
The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every… — Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings.… — John Berger
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels. — Ansel Adams
If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have… — Minor White
We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas. — Arnold Newman
The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how. — Margaret Atwood
While there are many who would say that the race to the moon was hardly green, many others have noted that the photographs brought back… — John F. Kennedy
There are numerous daytime and night time photographs and videotapes of clearly non-human spacecraft from all over the world; these films and videotapes have been… — Steven M. Greer
Among the hundreds of so-called "UFO reports" each year, a sizable fraction of those clearly observed by reputable witnesses remain unexplained-and difficult to explain in… — Richard Hall
I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death. — Joel-Peter Witkin
Cameras and lenses are simply tools to place our unique vision on film. Concentrate on equipment and you'll take technically good photographs. Concentrate on seeing the light's magic… — Unknown Author
The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated — Frederick Sommer
Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see. — Emmet Gowin
I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light. I cannot will… — Joyce Tenneson
Photographing these flowers has made me see the world differently. It was as if I had lifted a secret veil from a subject I had… — Joyce Tenneson
I tried to photograph the mysterious, true and magical soul of popular Spain in all its passion, love, humor, tenderness, rage, pain, in all its… — Unknown Author
Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning… — Barbara Kruger
I'm good at using my face as a canvas… I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face.… — Cindy Sherman
I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy. Even… — Cindy Sherman

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