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The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.
It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner.
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
Pregnancy is a time for women to feel more connected with their bodies, and yet often the opposite occurs.
When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.
I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.
I always thought Stuart deserved a little bit of fame. He was a gifted artist and a very wonderful person.
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Allow yourself the freedom to step away from perfection because it is only then that you can find success.
I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.
Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things.
If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.
I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.
Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.
I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks.
One of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you're going to get a picture.
If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.
There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.
The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.
Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.
New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.
My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Everyone started to have a camera. That's when I started to travel outside of New York and go into nature.
I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.
At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
I find fashion magazines so incredibly boring . . . There still is no new photography and no new concerns.
There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.
My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.
There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.
It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it.
In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.
I've taken pictures in at least 14 countries, and nowhere have people told me 'no' more than New York City.
I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.
An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.
Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.
But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.
The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become clear.
It's too bad patient-centered care is not rocket science, because if it was, we would be really good at it.
To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.
Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is.
American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.