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What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment that photo taken!

Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!

When we look at the old photographs, we always ask three main questions: Are they alive? If they are, where are they? And finally, what is their life story? Photography is an art of creating many questions in the mind of the viewer!

Where they are setting up the market, it used to be a place for torture,” Julien remarked, indicating the place in front of them. “Wow,” Ava said. “I know I said I wanted to ditch the romanticized idea of Paris with couples and hearts and flowers but I wasn’t thinking of touring all the places they once did waterboarding.

When you raise the camera to your eye you become responsible for contextualizing the history of the person you are photographing. It is critical that photographers take that responsibility as seriously as they do the photograph itself. Stories need to be approached with intellectual curiosity rather than a mere visual curiosity. It is also critical they consider the people they are photographing as collaborators, not “subjects.

With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph.

Why you like photography so much? Because it's just the camera and me showing everyone else what we can see. It's telling stories.

(1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees and the better his chance of getting good results. (2) Even slight changes in subject approach can make significant differences in the effect of the picture.

You know zat another term for an iconographer would be ‘photographer’? From the old word ‘photus’ in Latation, vhich means—” “‘To prance around like an idiot ordering everyone about as if you owned the place,’” said William. “Ah, you know it!

Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these unmade images that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made.

A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless

a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

A good question has many answers.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

All photographs are self-portraits.

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.

All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

All the photographers were trying to just get me off, which was hilarious. But it was very, very amusing.

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.

All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver.

A lot of models achieve that kind of iconic position by working primarily with one photographer.

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few want to receive.

A lot of people are like, "Oh, it's so much easier to be a supermodel now because you have Instagram. You don't even need an agency anymore." But that's just not true. I still had to go to all the castings, I still had to go meet all the photographers, I still had to do all of that to get to where I am now. There wasn't a step taken out just because I had social media. I still have 12-hour days, I still have even 24-hour days sometimes; I still have to do all those things. We don't work any less hard than the '90s models did when they were young.

Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be a profound likeness, which physically and morally predicts the subject's entire future.

Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.

An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.

A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'

Always carry a camera, it's tough to shoot a picture without one.

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.

A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.

A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences.

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

A picture is like a prayer.

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.