About Quote by Nigel Barker

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

— Ansel Adams

When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar…

— Alexey Brodovitch

Every photograph is the photographer's opinion about something. It's how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny.

— Mary Ellen Mark

I think that emotional content is an image's most important element, regardless of the photographic technique. Much of the work I see these days…

— Anne Geddes

What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by a sensitive…

— Andreas Feininger

Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised,…

— Susan Sontag

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or…

— Galen Rowell

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels.

— Ansel Adams

It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.

— Alexey Brodovitch

Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.

— Christopher Anderson

For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the…

— Robert Keith Leavitt

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman