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I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.
Galen Rowell
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Photographer
Animal
Landscape
Light
Mean
Mountain
Photograph
Photography
Thinking
Absolutely
Shot
Camera
Record
Nor
Unless
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
Dorothea Lange
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Photographer
Objects
Photograph
Photography
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I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little bit of the fairy tale. Let others photograph the ugliness of the world. I don't want to distress people.
Leo Mccarey
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Clouds
Distress
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Photograph
Ugliness
Formula
Tale
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I wasn't familiar with Patti [Smith ]much at all. When I was asked to photograph her, my wife said, "Oh my God, Patti Smith!" So I looked at some Robert Mapplethorpe books and I recognized those pictures.
Steven Sebring
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Photographer
Book
Photograph
Wife
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When you photograph someone, you have to make them feel good, and you know that they want to look good. It's the same relationship that you have when you apply makeup on somebody. We're almost like shrinks.
Francois Nars
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Feel Good
Makeup
Photograph
Shrinks
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A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture
Susan Sontag
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Writer
May
Photograph
Proof
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My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen to the radio at night, close our eyes and see movies far more beautiful than you can photograph.
Francis Ford Coppola
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Film Director
Beautiful
Eye
Night
Opera
Photograph
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If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.
Matt Damon
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Actor
Home
Aisle
Bored
Library
Lines
Photograph
Go Home
Local
Matt
Researching
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I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank.
Annie Leibovitz
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Photographer
Frank
Photograph
Collection
Bought
Huge Fan
Robert
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I don't think it is even possible to define what a good photograph is, so it is difficult to instruct anybody how to make one. Beauty and aesthetics are subjective, and very much in the mind of the beholder.
Michael Kenna
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Photographer
Mind
Photograph
Thinking
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This stupid celebrity thing is just a consequence of being good at what you do. I mean, no one would photograph David Beckham if he wasn't the best attacking midfielder in the country - much as I hate Man. U!
Nick Moran
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Actor
Attacking
Beckham
Consequence
Country
Hate
Photograph
Stupid
David
Celebrity Thing
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If someone is nice enough to come up to you and tell you how much they enjoy your work, and all they want in return is to take a photograph and for you to chat for five minutes, then I am delighted to do that.
Daniel Portman
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Delighted
Photograph
Return
Work I Am Your
Work Enough Your
Chat
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I love sharing photographs and websites, I'm for all of these things. I'm for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability? We begin to define things in terms of what technology enables and technology allows.
Sherry Turkle
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Professor
Technology
Photograph
Term
Photographs
Define
Enables
Facebook
Sharing
Websites
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In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.
Sam Abell
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Photographer
Deliberate
Godlike
Mistake
Photograph
Photographer
Spirit
Complete
Hole
Rug
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Well, there's that girl on the Internet - although this isn't an example of someone who doesn't know they're on - but there's a girl on the Internet who posts one photograph every two minutes from her bedroom.
Peter Weir
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Film Director
Bedroom
Example
Minutes
Photograph
Posts
Although
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You don't necessarily get the background of a character every time, So, you have to create it mentally and write about it. This is something I learnt from Geetanjali Kulkarni with whom I worked in 'Photograph.'
Sanya Malhotra
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Photograph
Mentally
Learnt
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I have to stay in shape for the physical endeavour stunts I do. I work out a lot. I have a personal trainer. I go two or three times a week. I'm on a diet where I photograph everything I eat and send it to her.
Keith Barry
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Hypnotist
Diet
Endeavour
Photograph
Personal Trainer
Send
Stunts
Trainer
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Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world
Susan Sontag
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Writer
Giving
Photograph
World
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In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It's such a liberating experience.
George Lucas
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Film Director
Filmmaking
Liberating
Manipulate
Moving
Photograph
Photographs
Directions
Images
Infinitely
Laying
Opposed
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You open a section of 'The New York Times,' and there's a review or a story on a choreographer or a dancer, and there's an informative, clear image of a dancer. This is, in my view, not an interesting photograph.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Choreographer
New York
Clear
Dancer
Informative
Interesting
New York Times
Photograph
Choreographer
Review
Section
View
York
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There are things that I teach, about building photographs, and that's why people come to my workshops. When people come to the workshops, they're consumed with seeking the subject, and I teach seeking the setting.
Sam Abell
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Photographer
Building
People
Photograph
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There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.
Robert Frank
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Photographer
Good
Enough
Humanity
One Thing
Photograph
Photography
Realism
Together
Two
Vision
Thing
Make
Contain
Must
Moment
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People aren't really looking at the result when taking a picture on an iPhone. And they don't print it. So to me, it's almost not a photograph. It's like looking in the mirror. It's a tool I don't relate to at all.
Tina Barney
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Artist
People
Photograph
Print
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I am trying to capture the women I photograph at their happiest. That is when they look their most beautiful. But I do understand that you have to make somebody feel completely comfortable in order to bring that out.
Mario Testino
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Photographer
Capture
Comfortable
Photograph
Women Most Beautiful Beautiful
Women Beautiful Look
Women Beautiful Most Beautiful
Happiest
Most Beautiful
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I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.
Ken Burns
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Producer
Add
Careful
Complexity
Drama
People
Photograph
Photography
Work Great Music
Becomes
Work Music Great
Landscapes
Treat
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I never photograph anything I don't believe in. If I love working with death, it's because even in death I find this power of reality that no sculptor or painter could recreate, not even a Michelangelo or a Da Vinci.
Joel-Peter Witkin
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Photographer
Believe
Photograph
Reality
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The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
Ed Markey
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United States Senator
Abuse
Conscience
Degrading
Humiliating
Photograph
Reports
Shock
Treatment
Acts
Photographs
Sexual
Iraqi
Prisoners
Subjected
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For me, every photograph is a portrait; the clothes are just a vehicle for what I want to say. You're photographing a relationship with the person you're shooting; there's an exchange, and that's what that picture is.
Peter Lindbergh
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Photographer
Relationship
Clothes
Photograph
Shooting
Vehicle
Picture
Exchange
Portrait
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I'd never seen Rigondeaux's face without it being obscured by headgear or a photograph of Fidel he was holding up after winning a tournament. Finally I saw him, only to recognize the saddest face I'd ever seen in Cuba.
Brin-Jonathan Butler
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Cuba
Photograph
Saddest
Holding
Obscured
Tournament
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I have never seen a picture of my mother. My mother's family never owned a photograph of her, which tells you everything you need to know about where I'm from and what the world was like for the people who gave me life.
Marcus Samuelsson
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Chef
Photograph
Life Family World
For The People
Owned
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It's weird: people used to want your autograph; now what they want to do is to take your photograph with an iPhone. And sometimes they'll pop their arm around you to hold their iPhone; they're shaking when they take it.
Bernard Sumner
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Iphone
Photograph
Shaking
Arm
Autograph
Weird People Sometimes
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I try and photograph people as they are. I do not want to hide anything. I want to bring across a personality, a humanity. It is not a case of model A or model B against a white background. I am interested in the person.
Juergen Teller
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Humanity
Photograph
Across
Background
Interested
Case
Model
Hide
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My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished.
Robert Frank
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Photographer
Accomplished
Anticipate
Photograph
Share
Advance
Composed
However
Image
Leaves
Planned
Viewpoint
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Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject.
Tim Walker
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Photographer
Fantasy
Honest
Mirrors
Photograph
Play
Trying
Mirror
Pictures
Subject
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My brother had fabulous children before I had children and for some reason I wanted to photograph them, and that was when I got my first camera. Children have something totally unconscious about them. That's how I learned.
Peter Lindbergh
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Photographer
Fabulous
Photograph
Unconscious
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Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.
Susan Orlean
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Journalist
Abandon
Disappear
Fingers
Impossible
Photograph
Rational
Release
Sensible
Trying
Photographs
Drop
Throw
Time And Time
Wastebasket
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I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasn't necessarily intending to read.
Jill Abramson
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Author
Hooked
Irresistible
Pages
Photograph
Printed
Serendipity
Stumbling
Admit
Turning
Intending
Newspaper
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After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.
Ray Bradbury
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Writer
Burned
Gone
Hiroshima
House
Intensity
Photograph
Wall
Had
After
Bomb
Lived
Side
Saw
Remained
Shadows
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Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African village, you see fractals. And I thought, 'This is fabulous! I wonder why?' And of course I had to go to Africa and ask folks why.
Ron Eglash
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Fabulous
Folks
Photograph
Village
Aerial
Africa
African
Notice
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I've always worked from images that already exist in our culture, and I just tweak them - I photograph my vision/interpretation of things that already exist, and I take it to the extreme. And then I make paintings or videos.
Marilyn Minter
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Artist
Photograph
Tweak
Extreme
Images
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I really want to become, like, a composer for my people, my country that will photograph the things that are happening now in story and in life and love but not only, like, the love of a couple, you know, the love in general.
Natalia Lafourcade
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Photograph
Life Love Country
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A selfie, like any photograph, interrupts experience to mark the moment. In this, it shares something with all the other ways we break up our day: when we text during class, in meetings, at the theater, at dinners with friends.
Sherry Turkle
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Professor
Break Up
Mark
Meetings
Photograph
Dinners
Shares
Text
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I didn't really know what I was looking at when I first came across Man Ray's 'Dust Breeding,' his photograph of a work by Marcel Duchamp called 'Large Glass.' It looked like an aerial photograph or a view through a microscope.
Cornelia Parker
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Sculptor
Breeding
Photograph
Across
Aerial
Duchamp
Glass
Large
Looked
Marcel
Microscope
Ray
View
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I'm interested in the person I photograph. The world is so beautiful as it is; there's so much going on, which is sort of interesting. It's just so crazy, so why do I have to put some retouching on it? It's just pointless to me.
Juergen Teller
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Photograph
Pointless
Beautiful World Me
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I hate getting my photograph taken; just because I'm a musician doesn't mean I should have to sell my soul and have pictures of myself on stage with a red face and sweaty armpits plastered over 'Heat!' every week. I'm not a model.
Amy Macdonald
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Heat
My Soul
Photograph
Sweaty
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What mattered about Alan Kurdi's photograph was that it made Canadians very angry, and the Conservatives, Liberals and New Democrats ended up competing with each other over which party was offering the most generous refugee policy.
Terry Glavin
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Angry
Competing
Generous
Offering
Photograph
Refugee
Alan
Canadians
Conservatives
Democrats
Liberals
Mattered
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The worst thing is when people try and take pictures surreptitiously. I always say, 'Look, you can ask me for a photograph. You will get a much better one than just the side of my face.' Sometimes they just run off. They can't cope.
Bill Bailey
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Comedian
Photograph
Cope
Face Look Me
Worst Thing
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
J. Carter Brown
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Gardening
Crunch
Garden
Giving
Photograph
Smell
Time Experience Will
Japanese
Underfoot
Walked
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The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere.
Clyde Tombaugh
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Astronomer
Compare
Different
Drawing
Photograph
Planets
Seeing
Twice
Somewhere
Photographs
Copied
Current
Drawn
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In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
Ansel Adams
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Photographer
Eye
Good Chance
Intuitive
Particular
Photograph
Photography
Practice
Print
Sight
Appear
Excites
Visualize
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