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As a child, people were always trying to photograph and film me because it's a way for a shy person to find themselves.
A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.
The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual diary.
I'm not really a guy who looks back or has regrets. In my house there's only one photograph of me from my playing days.
When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.
I've never felt massively satisfied from standing there while someone takes my photograph. It's never given me a thrill.
Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.
The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.
That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better."
Certainly, people feel awkward when they have their photograph taken. They want to see it, but they don't want to see it.
I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.
Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is.
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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?
I'm not a movie star, but I still get my photograph taken when I walk down the street, hundreds of times. I never say no.
I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.
Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.
The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.
The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.
I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.
Making photographs can be a way for me to bring something up and into consciousness, something either shared or individual.
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.
Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.
Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.
When you can use forged photograph of Manoj Tiwari then all your claims are false. The whole party and their thinking is fake.
I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.
Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.
What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.
Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with.
I had a nice, pert nose but a plain round face and a mop of curly brown hair. That was not the photograph of a successful model.
The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.
I fall in love with almost every person I photograph. I want to hear their stories. I want to get close. This is personal for me.
A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.
It takes a while for a photograph to mature. That sounds really pretentious, but it takes a time for it to go from here to there.
I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens.
I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.
The way that light hits objects in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them, is really the story of photography.
There is something about the way I photograph. People often say, 'Are you cross with me?' My eyes can look sort of... like a wall.
People photograph everything and nothing - no interaction is deemed to have actually happened unless somebody has a picture of it.
Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also monitor construction in progress.
If I knew what the photograph was going to look like, I wouldn't bother taking it. It's the voyage of discovery that fascinates me.
I realized eventually that if I was really on top of what I was doing, I should be able to make photographs out of almost anything.