Photographing Quotes

112 quotes by 78 authors

You adapt to who you're photographing. — David Bailey
I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and… — David Bailey
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
It doesn't matter if you're photographing a porter in a market in Marrakech or you're photographing the king of Morroco. You have the same sympathetic… — Albert Watson
To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false. — Dorothea Lange
I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice. — Josef Koudelka
I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the… — William Albert Allard
I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are… — Mary Ellen Mark
I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice. — Minor White
I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's nothing much interesting… — Mary Ellen Mark
I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a tragedy. Because there… — Joel Meyerowitz
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man. — Edward Weston
In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs. — Susan Sontag
I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe.… — Garry Winogrand
Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you're photographing anything to do with war and conflict you're photographing something impossible. Everything you do is just clumsy and stupid and half witted.… — Simon Norfolk
As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things… — Wynn Bullock
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 don't think there's any kind of preparation for sudden celebrity. I think you almost have this slight nervous breakdown when that kind of media… — Scarlett Johansson
Itâ€™s important for you to spend your time photographing things that matter to you. You need to understand the things that have meaning to you,… — Steve McCurry

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