Has beens Quote by Jules Renard

If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too…

— Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

“When is an attempt not a real act of self-destruction but merely an attention-seeking device? We may never know; however, since even attention-seekers kill…

— Andrew Slaby

I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.

— Richard Misrach

I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.

— Paul Strand

Behind that picture of me, thousands and thousands of people, they suffered - more than me. They died. They lost parts of their bodies.…

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

Nine years old, I became the victim of war. I didn't like that picture at all. I felt like, why he took my picture,…

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

And I realized that many of the people I was photographing might have been the very ones who had committed the massacres that I…

— James Nachtwey

Now that you are dead, you are splendid. Photographs of people who have just died are worth twenty percent more, and for suicides there…

— Kobo Abe

“Murder develops. Yes, like a photograph, isn’t it?” “It’s very much like photography really,” said Dermot. “Quite a good comparison of yours.”

— Agatha Christie

I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its…

— Alfred Stieglitz

I used to have the most visceral response to having my photo taken. I felt like instantly bursting into tears and running out of…

— Rebecca Hall

We're constantly taking pictures of ourselves. It's a bit scary, because images are essentially dead, so we judge beauty on something that isn't alive.

— Elle Fanning