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It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.
The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.
I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.
It can happen anytime, anywhere. I mean, you don't have to be in front of stuff that's going to make a good photograph. It's possible anywhere.
You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.
Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
If you are interested in photography because you love it and are obsessed with it, you must be self-motivated, a perfectionist, and relentless.
My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.
Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.
In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me.
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used.
The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course of my life.
The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.
How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
Photography is a source of raw materials as I believe the camera is never perfect and will never be able to express in full what I see and feel.
Many photographers are consumed with the idea of making beautiful contact sheets. I am far more interested in making the best final print I can.
Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.
It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.
I have gradually confused photography and life and as a result of this I believe I am able to work out of myself at an almost precognitive level.
It's really a great asset to be willing to fail and blow it, so to speak, and to be okay with just making stuff, sharing it and getting feedback.
Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
Photography has definitely been my favorite way to remember things. At least for me that’s how my brain processes things, of memories or moments.
I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.
I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process, and your own limitations.
For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.
One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
Realism and superrealism are what I'm after. This world is full of things the eye doesn't see. The camera can see more, and often 10 times better.
Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.
I think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances can change people's lives.
I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
...the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models.
Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.
Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.
[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.
Photography is a unique art that allows people to go back, not only to rediscover themselves but also to get something in print for the first time.
Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.
Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.
There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is, not the simpler it is to understand.
All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.