Demarko Photographer Quotes

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

The weirdest thing to me is that magazines would never do this for their writers. They would never hire a writer who writes for another magazine; they want to have their own stable of writers. Newsweek would never hire a TIME writer, and TIME would never hire a Newsweek writer - but they would both hire the same photographer to shoot a cover for them. ~ Gregory Heisler

I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is. ~ Chuck Close

My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started. ~ Alyson Hannigan

Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures. ~ Jay Maisel

When a photographer or a person sees your beauty, your inner beauty, it makes you feel special like, "Wow, someone saw that within me." ~ Jamel Shabazz

Always, when the words art and artistic are applied to my photographic work, I am disagreeably affected. This is due, surely, to the bad use and abuse made of those terms. I consider myself a photographer, nothing more. If my photographs differ from that which is usually done in this field, it is precisely because I try to produce not art but honest photographs, without distortions or manipulations. ~ Tina Modotti

Photographer's advice: Stand in the right place. ~ David Douglas Duncan

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It's absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It's the gimmick of money. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken. ~ Roland Barthes

I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don't have one at all. ~ W. Eugene Smith

Sometimes things need shaking up. You've got to test the limits. ~ Lindsey Kelk

In terms of image-repertoire, the Photographer (the one I intend) represents that very subtle moment when, to tell the truth, I am neither subject nor object but a subject who feels he is becoming an object: I then experience a micro-version of death. ~ Roland Barthes

My friend Jim Richardson, a National Geographic photojournalist, likes to make the distinction between being a "traveler" and a "sightseer." According to Jim, a traveler seeks engagements with the local people and culture, while the sightseer just clicks off sights in the guidebook, a "been there, done that" mentality. A sightseeing photographer stands apart from the culture and "steals" pictures from a distance, while a travel photographer becomes involved with his or her surroundings and the people, and the resulting pictures become more intimate. ~ Bob Krist

I'm a head-shot photographer. I have people come to my apartment, and I take their head shots. ~ Colman Domingo

I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way. ~ Liam Gallagher

It is necessary to like loneliness to be photographer ~ Raymond Depardon

I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves. ~ Joyce Tenneson

When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters. ~ John Sexton

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect ... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs ... if you look very intensely and slowly, things will happen that you never dreamed of before. ~ Aaron Siskind

A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself. ~ John Szarkowski

I don't want to be known as the guy who always takes his shirt off ... I've done a lot of photo shoots lately for the press coming up with 'Immortals' and 'Breaking Dawn,' and every photographer wants to get the topless shot. We've really had to be choosy and not do that for every magazine. I've actually been trying to keep my clothes on more. ~ Kellan Lutz

I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture. ~ Lisa Marie Presley

I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed. ~ Lotte Jacobi

The frame frames a frame of mind. ~ John Paul Caponigro

Photographers are always imposing ~ Susan Sontag

Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer ~ Ken Jennings

The greatest compliment that I know how to pay another photographer is to say, 'I never would have made that photograph myself. I'm sure glad you did.' You hope along the way that maybe, once in a while, you do that for someone else. ~ John Sexton

I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues as I ever was. Then there is the photographer-me, the one who has a camera in hand and a specific project in mind, and then the world suddenly jumps to life with potential pictures, as if a switch had been thrown in my brain and a different person is looking out of the same eyes. ~ Bill Jay

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images. ~ Minor White

One of the things my career as an artist might say to young artists is: The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best. And unless you photograph what you love, you are not going to make good art. ~ Sally Mann

I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but ... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another. ~ Walker Evans

You have to let the past successes go, or you'll never be able to see anew. ~ Jay Maisel

The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless. ~ Andre Kertesz

With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely! ~ David Hockney

The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect ... [for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by publications using it, has more influence on public thinking than any other branch of photography. ~ W. Eugene Smith

If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images. ~ Eve Arnold

Astonish me! (Instruction to photographers) ~ Alexey Brodovitch

Photography is like stealing.You rob someone of a moment that exposes something essential about their character,their soul if you like.there are people who are very conscious of that,who find that terrifying.The thought that everyone,friend of foe,can get so close to you,look you straight in the eye and judge you without having any control over it or being able to respond.A part of them has become the property of the photographer. ~ Esther Verhoef

Photographers are history makers,
Every picture is a moment which gone forever
and can't re shoot. ~ Biju Karakkonam, Nature And Wildlife Photographer

The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast ... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well. ~ Andre Bazin

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas. ~ Richard Avedon

I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man. ~ Andy Serkis

Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who's looking at it. ~ Jay Maisel

You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer. ~ Derek Jeter

Even the most amazingly talented photographer could not have been able to catch splendid photos without the amazing talent of nature which creates splendid things! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self. ~ Minor White

The question is not whether a picture is good, in some formal, technical sense, but, does it mean what I need it to mean? Writers can edit sentences that may be well-crafted but that don't express an intended thought. But in photography, there are no revisions: A photograph is in or it's out, and the photographer must live with the consequences of his or her choices. ~ Thomas Roma

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. ~ Jeff Vespa