Magic Quote by Duane Michals

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the…

— Irving Penn

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show…

— Irving Penn

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

— Paul Strand

The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the…

— Richard Avedon

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman

One of the elements of photography is, just by nature, journalistic. It's some kind of documentation. The most successful pictures to me are with…

— Richard Kern

Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.

— William Mortensen

“...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them…

— Dave Hickey

If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as…

— Henri Matisse

If I do a portrait, I know what they can take. If somebody's a sweet, shy person, the photographs will be sweet and shy.…

— Juergen Teller

You always want to come back with an image that's interesting visually, and you hope to get something from the person you photograph that's…

— Anton Corbijn

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can…

— H. G. Wells