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The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.
Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.
In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.
With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.
A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.
Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.
The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
...photography is made essentially of time. I often think that what we show is a point in time, more than a window onto space.
All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.
I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.
Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.
Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.
Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.
It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.
I love photography, I love food, and I love traveling, and to put those three things together would just be the ultimate dream.
Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'
I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.
Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.
There is indeed something omnivorous about the act of photography. It offers a way of responding to everything about everything.
For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)
It's quite difficult to write about photography as a photographer. A lot of better photographers than me have declined to do it.
... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.
A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and fully.
What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.
James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing - is there anything you can do?
When I photograph, I am always relating things to one another. Photography shows the connection between things, how they relate.
Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.
The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone.
A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.
I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.
I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)
Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.
My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.
It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.
We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.
I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.
Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen.
I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.