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'America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age.
— Rick Smolan
There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
— William S. Burroughs
The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.
— Roland Barthes
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
— David Lynch
I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.
— Emmet Gowin
A camera has interesting ideas of its own.
— John Szarkowski
Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen.
— Philip Jones Griffiths
I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.
— Sarah Sutton
Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.
— Leonard Freed
Only photography has been able to divide human life
into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence. — Eadweard Muybridge
into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence. — Eadweard Muybridge
When you look at nature, you see a hidden mystery that gives a special flavor to the photograph.
— Abbas Kiarostami
The pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models.
— Edward Weston
Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.
— George A Tice
I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my
relationship to photography. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
relationship to photography. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
— Robert Genn
The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.
— Stephen Shore
I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.
— Gregory Crewdson
Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.
— Eliot Porter
Photography is a very important part of my life.
— Conrad Hall
Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.
— Peter Diamandis
I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.
— Sebastiao Salgado
Favorite People, Favorite Places,
Favorite Memories of the past ...
These are the joys of a lifetime
Those are the things that last — Henry Van Dyke
Favorite Memories of the past ...
These are the joys of a lifetime
Those are the things that last — Henry Van Dyke
In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death,
— Nobuyoshi Araki
If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.
— Josef Koudelka
It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.
— Gregory Crewdson
People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.
— Edward Weston
A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.
— Susan Sontag
I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.
— Sebastiao Salgado
The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.
— Minor White
I've never gotten a release from any person. I'm not a businessman; I'm on the side of common sense. Releases ruin the atmosphere of photography.
— Peter Beard
A picture is like a prayer.
— Harry Callahan
Photography is a unique art that allows people to go back, not only to rediscover themselves but also to get something in print for the first time.
— David Travis
If there were lies to photography, I figured, there was truth too, truths we'd never see if not through the dispassionate glass eye of a camera.
— Richard E. Gropp
In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me.
— Drew Barrymore
What I've always liked about photography is that it's such a direct way of showing what's on my mind. I see something. I show it to you.
— Zoe Leonard
What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.
— Graciela Iturbide
I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.
— Keith Carter
Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.
— Susan Sontag
Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.
— Ren Ng
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
— Ansel Adams
When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.
— Melanie Mayron
Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.
— Thomas Leuthard
I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.
— Erik Johansson
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.
— Paul Caponigro
Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.
— Matthew Modine
Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
— Garry Winogrand
When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.
— Katherine Waterston
For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.
— Wynn Bullock
Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.
— Pablo Picasso
Photography is a way of introducing people to other people.
— William Albert Allard
I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.
— Trent Parke
Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.
— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
— Eric Clapton
I opened up Shutterstock to the whole world. I created a contributor community that anyone could give stock photography a shot.
— Jon Oringer
Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.
— Minor White
Whosoever possesses a camera should never know boredom.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.
— Frank Horvat
That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
— Dorothea Lange
Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
— Donatella Versace
The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
— Edward Weston
A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.
— Francesca Woodman
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
— Tony Benn
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ...
— John Szarkowski
I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.
— Sebastiao Salgado
A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.
— Brassai
Photography is a very lonely medium. There's a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that's why I'm a photographer.
— Alec Soth
Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos.
— Mike MacDonald
I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.
— Gia Coppola
And I'm a pretty avid photographer, I've been into photography for years now, so I try to spend some of my free time with that.
— Danny McBride
I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.
— Thomas F. Wilson
A perfectly clear photograph is a distortion of reality.
— David B. Lentz
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
— Ansel Adams
If you are interested in photography because you love it and are obsessed with it, you must be self-motivated, a perfectionist, and relentless.
— Mary Ellen Mark
I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace,
— Duane Michals