Fun Quote by Juergen Teller

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

My way in for photographing people is really their work. I'm always interested in what people make, and then I photograph the person. Sometimes…

— Anton Corbijn

I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a…

— Francis Bacon

Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a…

— Tim Walker

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

— Frans Lanting

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…

— Bruce Barnbaum

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

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

It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the…

— Paul Strand

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 never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.

— Francesco Clemente