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If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines - were mostly by accident.
I don't come taking millions of pictures. I spend time with them and simply observe. If you wait long enough those amazing images will come.
I have a deep respect and love for these tiny humans, and I hope to convey in my images a measure of the beauty that exists in all children.
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.
Don't wait for perfect. Don't wait for something to be fully formed in your head to start on it. Just start, and then work it out as you go.
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.
I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there.
If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation.
My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new approaches.
My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.
I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
Photography is the only "language" understood in all parts of the world, and, bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.
Somebody would come in and say, I never take a good picture. I'd say, Why not? You've got two eyes, a nose, and a mouth like everybody else.
My purpose is to acknowledge the wonder of being part of Creation. Though I myself don't create anything, I make from what has been created.
The sights I have just seen [at Buchenwald] are so unbelievable that I don't think I'll believe them myself until I've seen the photographs.
Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.
In America, more than half the population are overweight. It's not healthy and I'm not proud of that but I don't hate having a woman's body.
The penguin doesn't know it's cute, and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous. This is just the food chain unfolding.
Duisburg was the worst industrial, depressive part of Germany. But it was great. We had nothing, but I didn't miss nothing so that was fine.
I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything.
Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.
A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.
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.
I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could. Because it's a frozen image.
I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.
My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.
My body was so instrumental to how I took pictures: it was practically a dance. I used to use my legs a lot; now I'm a little more sedentary.
I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from nothing to the top; they think you start at the top.
There's no-one up there in Northern Norway, food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.
...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold.
The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.
I no longer see my world as delineated by countries with borders or language, but as seven billion humans living off a single, finite planet.
We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are.
I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.
I'm embracing the punk. There's so much punk style in everything we do and wear everyday; we just never have the chance to do it all the way.
I think only a superb news or reportage picture could move me. Other photographs may leave a strong impression on me, but they don't move me.
We need to go inward instead of outward, and learn to trust our own inner guide, preserving our identity and finding the answers from within.
You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look at.
I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".
With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.
When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.
I always have the feeling that I'm sitting around not doing anything with my life. A little Calvinist guilt that I should be more productive.
If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.
I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.
The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.
My real interest is traveling the world's tormented places and revealing the scars and the traces on the ground. I am dedicated to the earth.
For a long time I've lived with the inadequacy of that frame to tell everything I knew, and I think a lot about what is outside of the frame.
The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.