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We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.
The digital tools allow us to have control over what and how we can alter an image that was unimaginable in the era of analog photography.
Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to move you.
Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.
I enjoy singing, I enjoy music as much as I enjoy photography, doing filming and stuff like that. I do a lot of things to express who I am.
When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.
After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.
As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.
The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.
For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.
Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.
When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
I have a deep respect and love for these tiny humans, and I hope to convey in my images a measure of the beauty that exists in all children.
My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new approaches.
As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.
The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.
For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.
Photography is the only "language" understood in all parts of the world, and, bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.
My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.
I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.
The act of photography is that of phenomenological doubt to the extent that it attempts to approach phenomena from any number of viewpoints.
You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look at.
Photography was inspired by painting, cinema by theatre and photography, I don't believe that any new art form was ever created from scratch.
I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.
If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.
The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.
When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.
I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.
With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.
If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)
I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".
I don't speak emotionally about my pictures. That's for other people to do. I will say that I love my photographs. That's what keeps me going.
Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.
I really loved taking photos when I was younger. I think my love for photography sparked my love for creating the visuals to support my music.
There really isn't anything that you could call 'bad' color. It all has to do with the amount of color you use and in what context it appears.
Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion - and to raise money.
I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.
You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.
You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.
Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.
During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.
Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.