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Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?Collection: Photography
Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.Collection: Photography
I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.Collection: Photography
Photography's a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today think that by putting on the uniform, the fishing vest, and all the Nikons, that that makes them a photographer. But it doesn't. It's not just seeing. It's feeling.Collection: Photography
Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.Collection: Photography
I feel shabby - because I've made a name, quite a good name, out of photography. And I still find myself asking the same questions: Who am I? What am I supposed to be? What have I done?Collection: Photography
I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.Collection: Photography
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.Collection: Photography
Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.Collection: Photography
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.Collection: Photography
We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.Collection: Photography
You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)Collection: Photography
I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my camera to speak for people who are unable to speak for themselves.Collection: Photography
Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.Collection: Photography
The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don't know what to do with it.Collection: Photography
This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.Collection: Photography
Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.Collection: Photography
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.Collection: Photography
The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?Collection: Photography
For photography is a way to capture the moment - not just any moment, but the important one, this one moment out of all time when your subject is revealed to the fullest - that moment of perfection which comes once and is not repeated.Collection: Photography
To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.Collection: Photography
The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.Collection: Photography
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.Collection: Photography
Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour.Collection: Photography
My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.Collection: Photography
I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.Collection: Photography
Available light is any damn light that is available!Collection: Photography
James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing - is there anything you can do?Collection: Photography
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.Collection: Photography
It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or ruins his pictures. A feeling for composition is a great asset. I think it is very much a matter of instinct. It can perhaps be developed, but I doubt if it can be learned. To achieve his best work, the young photographer must discover what really excites him visually. He must discover his own world.Collection: Photography
No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.Collection: Photography
I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in my own work. Indeed, I feel the simplest approach can often be most effective. A subject placed squarely in the center of the frame, if attention is not distracted from it by fussy surroundings, has a simple dignity which makes it all the more impressive.Collection: Photography
If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself.Collection: Photography
But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover this, for unless he finds what it is that excites him, what it is that calls forth at once an emotional response, he is unlikely to achieve his best work.Collection: Photography
By temperament I am not unduly excitable and certainly not trigger-happy. I think twice before I shoot and very often do not shoot at all. By professional standards I do not waste a lot of film; but by the standards of many of my colleagues I probably miss quite a few of my opportunities. Still, the things I am after are not in a hurry as a rule.Collection: Photography
By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between the original and the copy. [Photography calls] into question the whole concept of the uniqueness of the art object, the originality of the author, the coherence of the oeuvre within which it was made, and the individuality of so-called self-expression.Collection: Photography
... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in the world to which it refers in a manner parallel to fingerprints or footprints or the rings of water that cold glasses leave on tables. The photograph is thus generically distinct from painting or sculpture or drawing. On the family tree of images it is closer to palm prints, death masks, the Shroud of Turin, or the tracks of gulls on beaches.Collection: Photography
Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism.Collection: Photography
Photography's vaunted capture of a moment in time is the seizure and freezing of presence. It is the image of simultaneity, of the way that everything within a given space at a given moment is present to everything else; it is a declaration of the seamless integrity of the real.Collection: Photography
What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.Collection: Photography
What's the point of getting killed if you've got the wrong exposure?Collection: Photography
Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.Collection: Photography
I was struggling against the flypaper of other arts harnessing film to their own usages, which means essentially as a recording device or within the long historical trap of picture - by which I mean a collection of nameable shapes within a frame. I don't even think still photography, with few exceptions, has made any significant attempt to free itself from that.Collection: Photography
I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.Collection: Photography
[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)Collection: Photography
The greatest field of photography, for the literary interpretation of life, consists, to my mind, in its latent power to create, as it were, death for a single second. Any thing or person is, at will, made to die for a moment of time so immeasurably small that the return to life is effected without consciousness of the great adventure. (1928)Collection: Photography
I'm proposing to you that photography is a language on its own, which is that when you look at images you do derive ideas; and I'm also proposing to you that you can derive ideas without going through words. So I'm forcing you to really look. And this process of looking, it's like a new set of ideas that are being proposed to you.Collection: Photography
Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.Collection: Photography
I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.Collection: Photography