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The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.
... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'
With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.
For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.
I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Behind the lens, I found refuge and freedom, distance and connection, an intoxicating way to tame the huge, chaotic world.
Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.
A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.
When people talk to me about picture hunters, I very quietly laugh. I'm not a hunter of pictures, I'm a fisher of pictures.
I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.
Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home.
Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.
Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.
Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)
First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography.
The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.
The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.
To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.
When you think of fashion photography, it's a dream. It's like we all want to be those women. We want to wear those dresses.
In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have.
I wanted [photography] to be more than a document, to be something that is as close as you could possibly be to the subject.
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.
What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.
Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.
My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.
Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.
Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.
A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.
I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.
I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.
Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.
With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.
Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.
I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.