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The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.
I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.
Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.
The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
I don't go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that's reason enough to photograph it.
I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.
Somebody once said to me that photography and writing don't get respect because people think that they can do it, too.
Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography?
I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras.
I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.
For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired.
Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.
Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.
...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.
To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.
The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.
In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.
Ultimately photography is about who you are. It's the truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit.
I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.
Evolution in action: First, God said, 'Let there be light.' Then, he created two nude models. Now we have photographers.
You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.
A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar.
I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared.
Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.
When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.
Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.
I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.
And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.
Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
When photography was invented, people had to make room in their minds for the idea that the dead would always be visible.
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.
Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.
At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.
To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.
It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.
I could ramble on forever, I just love photography. It's my passion, it drives my family crazy. I live it and breathe it.
I think photography is a universal language as far as storytelling goes, and I think that's what it's most successful at.
Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.