Photograph Quote by Mary Ellen Mark Download Open image “I always wanted to photograph the universal subjects.” — Mary Ellen Mark ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Photograph Subjects Universal Wanted
...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph. — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality. — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture. — Dawoud Bey Copy Share Image
...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything. — Thomas Struth Copy Share Image
For me, at least, studying my subjects first and knowing them personally was essential to taking a good picture. — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer. ... I'm not… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
To touch on people's lives [ in a way they ] haven't been touched on before, it´s fascianting. You know, it's one thing if… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
It's just a matter of who you are and how you talk to people. Your subjects will trust you only if you're confident about… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing… — John Ford Copy Share Image
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I started shooting for 'Photograph' right after 'Dangal' so, it's really special for me. — Sanya Malhotra Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Stop and go: always on some journey. My bounty is a photograph or two. — Sylvia Plachy Copy Share Image
Trying to find this industry's tendency to celebrate the physical is a waste of time. So I'm happy to play the game. But I… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
MAC allowed me to have complete freedom on the collaborations—from the shades, the look-and-feel, to the campaign visuals. I have to admit that the… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There was a stage in my career when I started to have problems with the vanity aspect of the subject. I got frustrated and… — Juergen Teller Copy Share Image
I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my… — Kirstie Alley Copy Share Image