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I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them.
I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.
Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera to record.
The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated
Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see - cumulative time.
The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.
I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my relationship to photography.
I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of 'how to do'. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.
If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph.
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Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
Favorite People, Favorite Places, Favorite Memories of the past ... These are the joys of a lifetime Those are the things that last
Don't overthink things in front of you. I fit moves you, shoot it. If it's fun, shoot it. If you've never seen it before, shoot it.
I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.
My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.
My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an exaggerated sense of curiosity.
[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.
When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.
The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.
My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.
Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.
Fashion has also been a great outlet, and I'd like to do more fashion photography in the future. I also photograph a lot of artists.
Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.
The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.
In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.
Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.
It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting.
I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.
Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.
...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.
The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.
Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment."
There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home.
John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.
The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.
I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.
Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play.
Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.
Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy - which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man.
My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.
Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.
Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.
I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.
When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.
There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.
Without my photography life would be boring. Photography adds an extra dimension to my life. Somehow it confirms my place in the world