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The sight of this woman infringing on the privacy of others so aggressively and casually sent revulsion through my entire being. What was she doing? Hunting big game? Were the people in this small village home just a quarry to be stalked, a trophy later to be mounted on the wall? It was one of those moments when I felt ashamed to be linked with this thing we call photography. We photographers “shoot” and “capture”. We may insist that we “make” a photograph, but everyone knows we really take them.

The subject, timing and light makes a photograph, great. Greater, is the photographer when he senses these are right.

The world of fine art photography represents not only the photos themselves, but the original expression of the photographers' perceptions.

Walking the streets with camera in hand is akin to being on a treasure hunt as a child.

Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!

We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal

We photographers are a despicable bunch. We take photographs. The best of us do not show people as they wish to be seen, instead, we show people as we imagine they really are.

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

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.

This book does not try to “document” any particular aspect of Indian life. To me, doing such a thing would seem a pretentious and pseudo-scientific undertaking, especially for someone from the West. The photographs also make no intentional social or political statement. I never say, when discussing my work, that I am “concerned” with anything (another favorite word tossed about, all too much, by young and socially conscious post-modernists).

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

(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.

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.

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 good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

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

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

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 photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

A good question has many answers.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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!'

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

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

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

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 is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.

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 without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.