Being Quote by Laurent Baheux

Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

— Ruth Orkin

The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.

— Sid Grossman

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to…

— Ansel Adams

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

— Fred Picker

In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.

— James Wilson

If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things.…

— Robert Mapplethorpe

A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences.

— Walter Rosenblum

Photography is a way of introducing people to other people.

— William Albert Allard

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

— Duane Michals

Photographers want to reinvent you, to take you somewhere else, to show you in a completely different way. They look at your previous work,…

— Emma Watson

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

— Ansel Adams

Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.

— Bill Jay