Book Quote by Garry Winogrand

I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes,…

— Ken Burns

Think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face…

— Duane Michals

I wanted pretty pictures of older women - women who are trying too hard but succeeding - pulling off an extreme look. What I…

— Cindy Sherman

Can you see the deaths, divorces, job losses or changes, disappointments, surprises, and successes on people's faces? Have they been happy, sad, disillusioned, or…

— Tina Barney

Faces in the everyday impress us as hives of subtlety. That impression must be sharpened in photography, which discloses only a microsecond of the…

— Max Kozloff

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

— Anonymous

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

[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good…

— Umberto Eco

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

“There is something strikingly different about the quality of photographs of that time. It has nothing to do with age or colour, or the…

— Amitav Ghosh

I don't think it is even possible to define what a good photograph is, so it is difficult to instruct anybody how to make…

— Michael Kenna

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

— Elizabeth Peyton