Photographing Quotes: top 86 famous quotes about Photographing

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I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity. — Horst P. Horst

I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice. — Josef Koudelka

Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past. — David DuChemin

I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams. — Zdzislaw Beksinski

I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out. — Sebastiao Salgado

People think photography is about photographing. To me, it's about relationships. — Lynsey Addario

The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything. — Diane Arbus

My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing. — Kim Weston

It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing. — Beaumont Newhall

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words. — Elliott Erwitt

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false. — Dorothea Lange

Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose. — Leonard Freed

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing. — Elliott Erwitt

I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently. — Robert Mapplethorpe

I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes. — Judy Dater

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story. — Christopher Nolan

When you start photographing yourself, you are going to be amazed at all the things you find out about yourself, and you'll be glad you did. — Bunny Yeager

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs. — Susan Sontag

There are many images which I miss on purpose. I've done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn't change the world, or me. — Jim Goldberg

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. — Eve Arnold

Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality. — Sam Taylor-Johnson

Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening. — Judith Butler

Photographing attractive people who were doing attractive things in attractive places. (Summary of his photographic career) — Slim Aarons

People tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy. — Tom Selleck

I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every toilet I used. — Stephen Shore

Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wasn't interested in just photographing someone naked, I was interested in representing them as clothed in their own skin, secure in themselves. — Mona Kuhn

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing ... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph. — Eve Arnold

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man. — Edward Weston

I Love photographing. It's that simple. — Stuart Franklin

I'm past photographing to see what things look like photographed. — Sally Mann

I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits. — Fay Godwin

I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography. — Douglas Kirkland

I started photographing people on the street during World War II. I used a little box Brownie. Nothing too expensive. — Bill Cunningham

I didn't actually begin photographing, or even visit New York, for the first time until I was 26. — Brandon Stanton

Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them. — Ryan McGinley

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing. — James Nachtwey

I don't want someone photographing my cellulite - I can't take it! — Shania Twain

When I'm photographing I see life. — Garry Winogrand

Finding a protest without placards is like photographing a hippie without a bong. — Steve Merrick

Ultimately, the reward is the process - the process of photographing and discovering and trying to understand why and what am I photographing. — Alex Webb

Photographing plants makes you look carefully and become aware of the many solutions plants provide to human problems — Andrea Jones

My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things ... — Sebastiao Salgado

I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird. — Richard Misrach

Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it. — Morley Baer

I photograph [people] as if photographing flowers. — Mona Kuhn

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason. — William Eggleston

Maybe I had to stop photographing so that I could learn to touch. — Vito Acconci

I was only photographing in words the reality of it all. — Charles Bukowski

To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to. — Susana Fortes

Photographing a cake can be art. — Irving Penn

I'm photographing all the time. I'm such a visual person and I don't want to miss that moment. — Danny Clinch

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice. — Minor White

I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them. — Diane Arbus

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal. — Nigel Dennis

I used to have a theory about photographing. It was a sense of getting in between two actions, or in between acton and repose. — Diane Arbus

Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness. — Lynsey Addario

I've never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers. — Alec Soth

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking. — Jessica Lange

There's nothing worth photographing more than 100 yards from the car — Brett Weston

I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses. — Paul Walker

Today, it's almost the outlier if people are not photographing what they ate and then sharing that in real time. — Danny Meyer

You were the thing
worth photographing,
the stillness
that begged
for a matte finish
and far off stare. — Tyler Knott Gregson

When you start photographing somebody, it's like a lustful relationship and there's all the excitement of new flesh. — Andrea Modica

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today. — William Eggleston

I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else. — Kim Weston

I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody. — Mario Testino

You adapt to who you're photographing. — David Bailey

I'm photographing myself out there. Not myself physically, but mentally. It's my take on the world. — Bruce Gilden

I spend my days photographing beautiful things for other people. ... Two of my favorite things: breakfast + morning light. — Jennifer Causey

It is the photographing of ordinary things, in extraordinary light, that produces extraordinary photographs. — David Young

It was as if my eyes were a camera and I was photographing the moment, knowing that I would keep the photograph forever. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I begin by not photographing. — Jeff Wall

The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas. — David LaChapelle

The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone. — Yousuf Karsh

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter. — Annie Leibovitz

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Don't expect things to happen fast. Be empathetic with the people you are photographing. Don't be concerned about money. — Lynsey Addario

I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos. — Martin Parr

I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women. — David Bailey

The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever. — Berenice Abbott

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one? — Imogen Cunningham

Why does almost every ad agency in the world set the time on a watch at 10:10 before photographing it? — Philippe Petit

The body is a place where our mind resides, and that's what I'm photographing. — Mona Kuhn

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing. — Imogen Cunningham

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities. — Dorothea Lange