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I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.
Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.
For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.
Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.
Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.
If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.
I don't know if I can articulate how I feel. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would make it here.
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.
One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.
I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.
I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.
Becoming a professional artist takes talent and perseverance, even more so when the field is photography.
I've been into photography for years and I do it as often as possible. I'm just trying to develop myself.
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.
You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.
Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.
We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.
Allow yourself the freedom to step away from perfection because it is only then that you can find success.
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.
Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.
Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.
I find fashion magazines so incredibly boring . . . There still is no new photography and no new concerns.
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.
I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.
Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.
It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.
My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.
The digital image annihilates photography while solidifying, glorifying and immortalizing the photographic.
I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.
A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
Straight photography, following the medium, is intoxicating - trying to wrestle it into the form of a poem.
What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.
I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.
Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.
Photography is more than a window for me. Photography is more like a space that tries to capture situations.
The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.
Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.
Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.
Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.