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The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.
I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.
I'm not a believer in the future. The most interesting things are always behind us. I look at everything as archaeology.
When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.
That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better."
I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.
I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for National Geographic, and they gave us a lot of film.
The trust we build over the years if of tremendous help to me when I start in a new project and need to find associates.
I've photographed a lot of my good girlfriends, and it's given me a lot of anxiety because I don't want to let them down.
The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
Knowledge is still power -- but today you've got to make sure you know more about your listener than their favorite song.
I don't think there's any better education than learning the intimate details of the lives of people who you most admire.
Of course, we were not promoters, we Westons, let's face it. Dad had only $300 in the bank at the end, that's all he had.
Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.
I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.
It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.
I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that homo sapiens is inherently erotic or sensual from birth.
If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.
You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.
The photographer can arrange his picture just as the painter does, only sometimes he must go about it in a different way.
I'm really in no one city more than two months during the year. I'm constantly having to readapt my eye to new locations.
Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.
From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers
I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general.
You can't move the sun, and you can't even move the tracks, so you have to do something else to better light the engines.
I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.
At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.
If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?
The best picture I got was Bianca Jagger whispering in Mick's ear. I caught them telling a secret, which is sort of rude.
We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.
Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to exist.
I could ramble on forever, I just love photography. It's my passion, it drives my family crazy. I live it and breathe it.
When you look at your life as an artist, you do see that when you get to be 60, you're coming - this is the last chapter.
It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time.
I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.
I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.
The key of 'The Earth from Above,' and of 'Home' is to show the beauty of the planet, and thereby to promote love for it.
I am interested in people. I'm interested in telling stories, whether that is behind the camera or in front of the camera.
I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.