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The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."
I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be.
Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.
Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.
The knack is to find your own inspiration, and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.
I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there.
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
To me, traditional approaches to doing photography and thinking about photography feel increasingly anachronistic.
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
You sort of have to be always aware, even when you're not thinking of shooting. That's when the best stuff happens.
I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice.
Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon.
Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.
I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography.
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography.
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.
I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.
Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.
Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.
If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath.
When you start photographing somebody, it's like a lustful relationship and there's all the excitement of new flesh.
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
You don't understand, photography is not about getting the right picture, it's about documenting your everyday life.
... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.
Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.
We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.
The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all gone.
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.
A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality
I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.
Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism.
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.
Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.