Mascarinas Photography Quotes

You don't study photography, you do it ~ Elliott Erwitt

The craft of photography is the key to good images. ~ Ansel Adams

I don't story board. I do something else, which is, I block it. We then train to the blocking. In other words, when everybody's training, they're actually training a lot of the moves that we are definitely going to use, and then, I do a lot of photography of that, and that becomes where the cameras go. ~ Michael Mann

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense ... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are. ~ Richard Avedon

In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation. ~ Frederick Sommer

Photography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light. ~ Kevin Russo

I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing. ~ Joyce Tenneson

Instantaneity is photography. ~ Edgar Degas

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression. ~ Jerzy Kosinski

The important thing is not the camera but the eye. ~ Alfred Eisenstaedt

I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else. ~ Sebastiao Salgado

I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my camera to speak for people who are unable to speak for themselves. ~ Gordon Parks

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting. ~ Jessica Lange

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air. ~ Walker Evans

Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography. ~ Martin Parr

In photography there is no meantime. There was just that moment and now there's this moment and in between there is nothing. Photography, in a way, is the negation of chronology. ~ Geoff Dyer

I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me. ~ Helena Christensen

The time of the photograph is [always] after. This imprecision accommodates the numerous successions, the end upon seismic end, in a time without time, un[re]countable: still. In this, it is a perfect crime, "l'anéantissement anéanti, la fin… privée d'elle-même. ~ Nathanaël

When you take a picture you haven't a clue that it is going to be what it is. Maybe you have a clue but you don't really know. There are too many possibilities. Part of the game is how many balls you can juggle. It is to me. When you are 12 you can juggle two. Maybe when you are 50 you can juggle five. That is an interesting concept to me: how much I can put in and still make it pull together? ~ Lee Friedlander

Art and accident are one. ~ Frederick Sommer

I'm designing a seductive frame to attract an audience to a subject they would otherwise ignore. And that's what I do in all of my photography - give a stage to things that wouldn't normally receive that stage. ~ Taryn Simon

When you've had a bad experience, you sometimes feel compelled to recreate it in a way that allows you to control it. ~ Todd Hido

Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then wait until the right time for something magical to come along and fill it. ~ Elliott Erwitt

Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach. ~ Walker Evans

He who seeks beauty will find it. ~ Bill Cunningham

The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key. ~ Luhraw

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

What my portraits are made of?
10% reality, 90% my philosophy. ~ Scuro Chiaro

Sometimes it's not how much light you use to get an effect, it's how
little you use and still make it work. There are a lot of rules to be
broken in photography, and you've got to have courage. ~ James Wong Howe

Photography is a medium of inescapable truthfulness. The camera doesn't know how to lie. ~ Janet Malcolm

I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself. ~ Lewis Baltz