About Quote by Joel Sternfeld

I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph…

— Bret Easton Ellis

There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because the subjects…

— Pamela Ribon

There are a lot of ways to talk about the life of a photograph. You can talk about the afterlife of a photograph, and…

— Sam Abell

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not…

— Frans Lanting

A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in…

— Richard Avedon

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not…

— Frans Lanting

“I take a picture, but it's not about who is in the picture or the background of it. It's about the memories and meanings…

— Kayla Davis

The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my…

— Anselm Kiefer

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

— Danielle Steel

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

— Italo Calvino

A photograph is a biography of a moment.

— Art Shay

My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like a collection…

— Edward Ruscha