Quotes about photograph
photography lying thinking
I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice. Annabelle Selldorf
photography always-trying sick
People are always trying to find the next groovy thing, and it hasn't gone back to painting... I'd like it to go back to painting. I'm sick of all this photography and video. There's so much of it, it's almost annoying. Cindy Sherman
photography art photographer
One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.
photography thinking artist
People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still definitely that happening. I'm still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that's really unfair.
photography fun acting
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. Cindy Margolis
photography sexy feelings
A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.
photography would-be assistants
I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough. Alfred Eisenstaedt
photography simple light
My style hasn't changed much in all these sixty years. I still use, most of the time, existing light and try not to push people around. I have to be as much a diplomat as a photographer. People don't often take me seriously because I carry so little equipment and make so little fuss... I never carried a lot of equipment. My motto has always been, "Keep it simple".
photography lying hard-work
It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would end up throwing most in the waste basket. You have to work hard at making an editorial picture. You need to re-stage things, rearrange things so that they work for the story, with truth and without lying.
photography important shutters
The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject.
photography diplomats photographer
I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.
photography successful hands
I don’t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film. Buy yards of film, miles of it. Buy all the film you can get your hands on. And then experiment with it.That is the only way to be successful in photography. Test, try, experiment, feel your way along. It is the experience, not technique, which counts in camera work first of all. If you get the feel of photography, you can take fifteen pictures while one of your opponents is trying out his exposure meter.
photography fleeting world
We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.
photography taken eye
I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle at which your photograph is to be taken.
photography eye people
With photography, everything is in the eye and these days I feel young photographers are missing the point a bit. People always ask about cameras but it doesn't matter what camera you have. You can have the most modern camera in the world but if you don't have an eye, the camera is worthless. Young people know more about modern cameras and lighting than I do. When I started out in photography I didn't own an exposure meter - I couldn't , they didn't exist! I had to guess.
photography hands cameras
When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
photography people boss
Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
photography heart humble
Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
photography eye important
The important thing is not the camera but the eye.
photography people doorways
I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh and new. It opens this doorway. I really admire people who can do that with photography. Andy Summers
photography strong people
The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you're a moron, you're going to get a really strong photograph.
photography crazy buttons
All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button. Andy Warhol
photography artist ideas
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
photography buttons photographer
Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.
photography writing blow
The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic writing, which appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, is a true photography of thought. Since a blind instrument now assured artists of achieving the aim they had set themselves up to that time, they now aspired, not without recklessness, to break with the imitation of appearances. Andre Breton
photography teaching class
When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days. Ann Beattie
photography people looks
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice. Robert Frank
photography black-and-white color
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
photography eye black-and-white
The eye should learn to listen before it looks.
photography matter photographer
Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference
photography two humanity
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.
photography war photograph
After the war, photography came alive, in part because everybody started to use the 35mm camera, and worked on the street instead of in a studio, and that made an enormous difference in not only how photographs looked, but what they were about.
photography invisible visible
Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible. Rene Magritte