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There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.
We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.
For me making a digital photo is like making a watercolor... It's not a painting, and it's not a photo. It's something altogether new.
The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.
I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.
To live, to experience the world, to communicate with a camera, all these are interrelated and cannot be separated from everyday live.
When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.
Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
Each time I did assignments or editorials, I realized that I wanted to do something more. I saw that it wasn't just about the clothes.
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.
[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.
When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.
I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.
I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you have to be patient.
My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.
Nothing is ever the same twice because everything is always gone forever, and yet each moment has infinite photographic possibilities.
I had said that when the first Bush got elected that I would leave the country. And when the second Bush wasn't even elected properly.
Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.
Who can go to a rodeo and then criticize the hunter? ... an expertly placed bullet would be the best gift a rodeo horse could receive.
I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.
My father was convinced that America was the greatest place in the world. I'm afraid I didn't have the family I would have dreamed of.
A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.
While the photos at the D.M.V. (New York) will still be taken in color, the engraving is done in grayscale, hence the Ansel Adams feel.
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.
My two biggest lessons learned as a trader are take risks and get comfortable with taking losses and setbacks to help move you forward.
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.
I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised.
I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning.
How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.
As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'
Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.
And no photographs taken with the aid of flashlight either, if only out of respect of the actual light—even when there isn't any of it.
Coming from California and growing up where I did, I've always had a fondness for and innate sensitivity to light, texture, and warmth.
Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.
When a photographer or a person sees your beauty, your inner beauty, it makes you feel special like, "Wow, someone saw that within me."
If you're just going to meet consumer or clients' demands, you might as well be a plumber - the work will be more frequently available.
All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.
That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.
There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
Education, or enrichment, is a dynamic, evolving, lifelong process. Every time you look, sensitively with awareness, your vision grows.
What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to go as far as I can.
I've had moments where I've felt like I was on another planet because I saw something beautiful. To me, taking pictures is being alive.
The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.
Photography's central role is to be the absolute medium of the day. It is fantastic that there is no longer any technical intimidation.