Photography Quote by Mary Ellen Mark

I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that…

— Evangeline Lilly

When you're with people that are aware of the fact that you're a photographer, they'll say, "Oh, look at that! That's something to take…

— Ari Marcopoulos

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

— Paul Strand

I have a genuine philosophy. I do not want to make negative pictures about people, and so I do everything I can to help…

— Douglas Kirkland

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

Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is.

— Jon Hamm

I know now that before I take a picture I have to be sure about how I feel about the subjects. What I don't…

— Tina Barney

Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do…

— Martin Parr

Alot of people think our lives are all about taking pictures and stuff like that. But it becomes a real bother when they're taking…

— Robert Pattinson

I photograph people as I find them. But people have issues about how they look.

— Martin Parr

You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to see it…

— George Rodger

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