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I have no regrets about my work. To be a photographer was a gift of the gods. I can't imagine anything that would have been better.
In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund
I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.
The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.
Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.
I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.
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.
It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.
The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.
I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.
To be a good hairdresser, you have to understand what the vision is of the designer or the photographer and then sort of add your thing.
The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.
I would always cast Meryl Streep for everything. I would do with something inspired by the work of Guy Bourdin, my favorite photographer.
The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.
I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.
You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.
Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.
When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.
As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.
The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.
My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings.
People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects off balance a bit.
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.
My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started.
Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.
I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters.
...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.
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a screenplay writer or a photographer. First question people asked me: 'Who do you know? Any contacts?'
Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.
I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.
Was it the same light that enchanted the first photographers? It is the same, and it is still brand new - it is something that never wears out.
I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.
Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.
I can't talk about my style. It us kind of difficult for me. I don't like styles. I only like taking photos and expressing myself through them.
That experience of being at Mt. St. Helen's was really formative. I don't even know if I'd be a photographer. It was an essential moment for me.
I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed.
Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.
I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.
I'm a portrait photographer that's used to shooting celebrities, and I usually need time and all kinds of lights and a studio to set up my shots.
I am a very keen photographer. I have enjoyed taking pictures since I was a kid with my family, but I became more serious about it at university.
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.
If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.
One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.
These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them