Best 623 quotes in «photographer quotes» category

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

The wandering photographer sees the same show that everyone else sees. He, however, stops to watch it.

The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.

They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.

Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

Thoughtfulness begins with seeing. My job as a photographer is to make that seeing easier. What we appreciate, what fascinates us, we will strive to preserve.

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

To be a good hairdresser, you have to understand what the vision is of the designer or the photographer and then sort of add your thing.

To convulse reality from within, to demonstrate it as fractured spacing, became the collective result of all that vast range of techniques to which surrealist photographers resorted and which they understood as producing the characteristics of the sign.

... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.

To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.

To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.

To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you make the exposure, you're always looking backwards in time. I like that aspect of photography.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her.

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world.

Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer

We are extremely precise about the girls we like; they're not necessarily the "It" girls of the season. Sometimes this "It" girl business gets a bit hysterical. It's all about which girl did which shoot with which photographer.

Usually, your personality doesn't come out on the cover of Vogue. If the photographer says, "Smile," you smile. You might not be in a good mood that day, but you're smiling anyway.

Was it the same light that enchanted the first photographers? It is the same, and it is still brand new - it is something that never wears out.

We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.

We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.

We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

We know photographers make frames, but we deeply believe they can also create frameworks.

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.

We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.

Well, I talk about one moment in the book, but I don't know if that's my moment of discovery. It was a moment. In the book, I talk about how I started shooting, how I became a photographer.

We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of the day. We go forward, despite the uncertainty. Because this is an act of love and passion, which defies reason and prudence.

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a specific photographer employing specific tools.

What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises them at their most positive, their most material and true.

What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.

When I make a picture, I make love.

When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a prediction about what will be thought to have been important.

When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few practical things. One of the things he said was, "Josef, a photographer works on the subject, but the subject works on the photographer.

When I revealed the campaign, some lady in the front row, a photographer, asked "is that airbrushed?" So I just lifted my shirt up and my stomach was the exact same thing as in the ads. It was actually kinda nice that she said that, because I'm sure plenty of people probably thought that. That's one of the reasons I did it - especially when you work so hard to get your body to look like that - it's frustrating.

When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.

When I first asked to take pictures of women at their homes, I was using my formal camera and I struggled to get the shots because I was still very much in the role of the photographer. Then the next time I had this little digital camera and their response to me would be completely different - I was a friend and I got new kinds of pictures. I was always treading a line between photographer and friend.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.