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You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you’re not interested in.
In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.
If you're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting.
I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.
Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject.
I love photography. I like to write. I like coaching. I've made jewelry. I'm very creative.
We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.
To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression.
Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.
I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.
Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.
Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes.
I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.
I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.
The more equipment you shlep around the less you will enjoy the equipment you shlep around.
I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.
I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!
Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.
Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.
I try to use photography to move people to action to save the wildlife in our beloved ocean.
What inspires me still: travel, art, photography, my kids, the places I haven't been to yet.
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.
There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.
Photography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light.
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.
If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.
People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.
I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
Photography is a strange phenomenon... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul.
Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.
Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do.
Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time.
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.