Photographing Quotes

112 Photographing quotes by 76 unique authors

The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone. — Yousuf Karsh
When I’m photographing I see life. — Garry Winogrand
If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, it’s sort of a magpie aesthetic—I just go and pick up whatever is around.… — Sally Mann
A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving all the things… — Wynn Bullock
I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into my photographs beyond… — Bruce Barnbaum
There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're going to find… — Bruce Barnbaum
How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a… — Duane Michals
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that… — Manuel Puig
You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to see it objectively.… — George Rodger
It wasn't even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered that I could… — George Rodger
It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. What I… — Eve Arnold
When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what the… — Bill Brandt
I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in. Whether you're photographing for yourself, for your job, whether… — Steve McCurry
Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say:… — William Eggleston
The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything. — Diane Arbus
Photographing a cake can be art. — Irving Penn
I always prefer photographing in available light – or Rembrandt-light I like to call it – so you get the natural modulations of the face.… — Alfred Eisenstaedt
I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out. — Sebastiao Salgado
I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper… — Helmut Newton
The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas. — David LaChapelle
What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I… — Galen
Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it. — Morley Baer
Doctors said that the test most commonly used to screen for colon cancer doesn't go far enough. They're recommending a procedure that involves photographing the… — Bill Maher
I’m past photographing to see what things look like photographed. — Sally Mann
I Love photographing. It’s that simple. — Unknown Author

Who Wrote These Photographing Quotes

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