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I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.
I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.
It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.
My photography is often a sociological look at American culture and it's been very well published in the UK.
As is often said of photography, this photograph is a frozen moment. A frozen moment is not a moment at all.
Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.
I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
I like there to be a joke in practically every photo I take. Nobody has the right to make photography boring.
Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.
No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics.
There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.
No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.
The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.
Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.
A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?
I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.
A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.
If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.
That's one of the wonderful things about the whole process of photography - eye contact can be very revealing.
Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.
They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.
It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.
Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.
The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.
Kids and cameras are a big things with me. Find a kid who digs cameras and share one simple photo tip with her.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.
A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
Photography's about the surface, what's happening at the top of the sea. Literature's about all the stuff below.
A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?
Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.
There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have.
Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.
If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.
Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.
Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.
The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.
Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday.
The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.