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When the true qualities of photography are recognized, the process of representation by mechanical means will be brought to a level of perfection never before reached.Collection: Photography
The oceans are in trouble. There are some serious problems out there that I believe are not clear to many people. My hope is to continually find new ways of creating images and stories that both celebrate the sea yet also highlight environmental problems. Photography can be a powerful instrument for change.Collection: Photography
At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form the world we live in. All our lives, that world is more immediate than words and difficult to articulate. Photography, reflecting those images with uncanny accuracy, evokes their associations and our instant conviction. The art of the photographer lies in using those connotations, as a poet uses the connotations of words and a musician the tonal connotations of sounds.Collection: Photography
It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.Collection: Photography
Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15.Collection: Photography
After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavours and from there it just blossomed. I have always had to have an outlet for my creativity and when my life became more about raising my family than the bright lights of show business exploring my photo art was a great outlet for me.Collection: Photography
Looking and seeing are two different things. What matters is the relationship with the subject.Collection: Photography
When I use the camera, I often feel likeI know part of the people or places I come in contact with.Collection: Photography
Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.Collection: Photography
The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts with the photographer's thinking about the subject he photographs and is continued in the mind of the spectator.Collection: Photography
A man with a camera was always suspected of being a spy. Moreover, the Jews did not want to be photographed, due to a misunderstanding of the prohibition against making graven images (photography had not been invented when the Torah was written!). I was forced to use a hidden camera.Collection: Photography
Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.Collection: Photography
Sometimes the simplest pictures are the hardest to get.Collection: Photography
You have to be ready for luck.Collection: Photography
To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye and yet, the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory.Collection: Photography
To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression.Collection: Photography
I create other worlds, magical never-never lands where the camera is my weapon and the battles I fight are with the elements. i stretch the laws of the mind and displace people from their realities to capture a side of them they didn’t even know they had. Photography has the ability to freeze people in this time and space—no matter what happens after that moment, it cannot change—they are exactly how i want them to be.Collection: Photography
I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being nakedCollection: Photography
Photography is about being exquisitely present.Collection: Photography
We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures? I want to have an experience in the world that is a deepening experience, that makes me feel alive and awake and conscious.Collection: Photography
I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and portrait photography, are a little more applied, more mixed in the with the history of painting and other art forms.Collection: Photography
Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was nothing there. I just watched it evaporate. You look one moment and there's everything, next moment it's gone. Photography is very philosophical.Collection: Photography
Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make these pictures. We need a record.Collection: Photography
I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a tragedy. Because there is a tragic element to photographing, in this case not war, but the collapse. It was just destruction.Collection: Photography
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.Collection: Photography
All photography is propaganda.Collection: Photography
Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality... Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.Collection: Photography
I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.Collection: Photography
We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.Collection: Photography
The knack is to find your own inspiration, and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.Collection: Photography
I want pictures like these. The kind that can capture a moment, make it real, make it last. I need pictures that do more than reflect. I need pictures that are truth.Collection: Photography
Creativity needs to extend beyond the lens. Find creative ways to showcase your work and get it seen. Straight up tenacity, hard work and determination will always be part of the equation, so get to it.Collection: Photography
"I've always been a proponent of "if you're going to do something, do it right." I applied that across all aspects of my shooting - planning, setting up shoots, getting up early, working with athletes and models, working with clients etc. Just being a pro about it.Collection: Photography
The more equipment you shlep around the less you will enjoy the equipment you shlep around.Collection: Photography
Kids and cameras are a big things with me. Find a kid who digs cameras and share one simple photo tip with her.Collection: Photography
The world of your photography is limitless-just like your backyard.Collection: Photography
If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.Collection: Photography
There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.Collection: Photography
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.Collection: Photography
There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph.Collection: Photography
I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it.Collection: Photography
As I progressed further with my project, it became obvious that it was really unimportant where I chose to photograph. The particular place simply provided an excuse to produce work... you can only see what you are ready to see - what mirrors your mind at that particular time.Collection: Photography
Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.Collection: Photography
The thing itself photographed becomes less interesting when you go back to it years later but I think the photograph becomes more important later when the reality has passed.Collection: Photography
I try to take my interests and make them my work.Collection: Photography
It's never as good the second time. Things don't get better. You can't always go back, a lot of it has been erased. The photograph is a record of it having existed.Collection: Photography
It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing beyond the moment; the everydayness of life gets in the way of the eternal.Collection: Photography
My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.Collection: Photography
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.Collection: Photography