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I often wondered why I was attracted to certain landscapes and not others and why my photographs (and depictions by other artists) looked the way they did, Archetypes imprinted on my mind started me on a search ... ~ John Pfahl
Photographer quotes by John Pfahl
You know, the Chinese don't like to be photographed because they believe that a part of their life is being taken away by the photographer. And in a way, they're right. The photographer is trying to get the prettiest moment of a life in his camera. ~ Bert Stern
Photographer quotes by Bert Stern
Looking at Loh's photographs, it is obvious that there is nothing simpler and richer than a face when stripped of all effects and affects, poses and postures, stances and pretences. The Singaporeans featured here are almost
expressionless, as if the photographer wanted to leave us clueless about them. What do their faces tell us? Why are they so familiar? Why do we feel we know this auntie that we don't know? And this guy with the nondescript look? And this girl with no distinguishing mark? Have we met before? ~ Raphael Millet
Photographer quotes by Raphael Millet
The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included. ~ Paul Strand
Photographer quotes by Paul Strand
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed. ~ Garry Winogrand
Photographer quotes by Garry Winogrand
If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button ~ Ruth Bernhard
Photographer quotes by Ruth Bernhard
Poems 1959-2009_

I turn into the man they photograph.
I think I'll ask him for his autograph.
He's older than I am and more distinguished.
The beauty of the boy has been extinguished.
He smiles a lot and then not.
Hauteur is the new hot.
He tilts his nose up and looks imperious.
He wants to make sure he looks serious.
He smiles at the photographer but not
The camera. He thinks cold is the look that's hot.
You know the poems. It's an experience.
The way that Shylock is a Shakespearience.
A Jew found frozen on the mountain at the howling summit,
Immortally preserved singing to the dying planet from it. ~ Frederick Seidel
Photographer quotes by Frederick Seidel
I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out. ~ Gordon Parks
Photographer quotes by Gordon Parks
I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making. ~ John Sexton
Photographer quotes by John Sexton
The camera cannot, but the photographer can. ~ Ansel Adams
Photographer quotes by Ansel Adams
The photographer discovers himself/herself being photographed and we can guess he is uncomfortable. Unsuccessfully he/she tries to recompose his posture and to look like a photographer taking photos. But no, he is and continues to be a spectator. The momentous fact of being photographed leads him to becoming an actor. And, as always, actors must assume a role, which is only an elegant way of avoiding to say they must choose sides, choose a faction, take an option. ~ Subcomandante Marcos
Photographer quotes by Subcomandante Marcos
I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer. ~ Irving Penn
Photographer quotes by Irving Penn
I want to allow others to reveal and celebrate aspects of themselves that are usually hidden. My camera is a witness. It holds a light up for my subjects to help them feel their own essence, and gives them the courage to collaborate in the recording of these revelations. ~ Joyce Tenneson
Photographer quotes by Joyce Tenneson
The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time. ~ Bill Brandt
Photographer quotes by Bill Brandt
A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars. ~ Guy Le Querrec
Photographer quotes by Guy Le Querrec
I've had shows as a painter, as a photographer, I've done shows as a sculptor. I've done a lot of different things and it all comes from experiences that you have in your life, in your creative environment. They all help - I don't even know if they help; maybe they make it worse but they all influence each other, for sure. ~ Norman Reedus
Photographer quotes by Norman Reedus
This prolific and inventive photographer (Edward Steichen) must be given credit for virtually inventing modern fashion photography, and as the tohousands of high-quality original prints in the Conde Nast archives prove, only Irving Penn and Richard Avedon have since emerged as serious historical rivals. ~ William A. Ewing
Photographer quotes by William A. Ewing
One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed. ~ Iman
Photographer quotes by Iman
Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photographer quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding. ~ W. Eugene Smith
Photographer quotes by W. Eugene Smith
The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I'm benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I have to reckon with every day, because I know that if I ever allow genuine compassion to be overtaken by personal ambition, I will have sold my soul. The only way I can justify my role is to have respect for the other person's predicament. The extent to which I do that is the extent to which I become accepted by the other and to that extent I can accept myself. ~ James Nachtwey
Photographer quotes by James Nachtwey
The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for more than eight or ten years. ~ Alexey Brodovitch
Photographer quotes by Alexey Brodovitch
The first things I did was I was a writer, painter, and photographer, and we grew up very poor, so even though I could get into any college I wanted, there was no way to pay for it. ~ Lori Petty
Photographer quotes by Lori Petty
There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get to work with before he passed away, but Richard Avedon was utterly genius and creatively brilliant. ~ Gabriel Mann
Photographer quotes by Gabriel Mann
I never intended to write poems, nor to be a photographer, nor to be a film-maker. I just took many, many pictures and I would put them in an album, and then some years later I decided to show them and suddenly I was called a photographer. Same thing with my poetry. They're notes that I'd written in a book and it may be considered poetry. ~ Abbas Kiarostami
Photographer quotes by Abbas Kiarostami
Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade. ~ Nigel Barker
Photographer quotes by Nigel Barker
I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef. ~ Dylan Moran
Photographer quotes by Dylan Moran
The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business. ~ Robert Capa
Photographer quotes by Robert Capa
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Photographer quotes by Edward Abbey
Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new ~ Freeman Patterson
Photographer quotes by Freeman Patterson
You've gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it's like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles. ~ Joe McNally
Photographer quotes by Joe McNally
Some photographers take reality ... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. ~ Ansel Adams
Photographer quotes by Ansel Adams
When the British-Malaysian photographer Ian Teh first worked in China, more than a decade ago, he rendered it as a nation of people in Technicolor. ~ Evan Osnos
Photographer quotes by Evan Osnos
Faces says the status of mind. ~ Biju Karakkonam, Nature And Wildlife Photographer
Photographer quotes by Biju Karakkonam, Nature And Wildlife Photographer
Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new. ~ Jay Maisel
Photographer quotes by Jay Maisel
The influence of mystery is the greatest influence. ~ Paul Caponigro
Photographer quotes by Paul Caponigro
Men die, heroically or fruitlessly, but man carries on. In Israel it is the same: the farmer must till the fields, the young must make love, and the photographer must, I suppose, be ready to photograph it all. ~ Leonard Freed
Photographer quotes by Leonard Freed
I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations. ~ Bill Brandt
Photographer quotes by Bill Brandt
The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better. ~ Minor White
Photographer quotes by Minor White
If you're a photographer, they give you a camera. If you're a writer, they give you a typewriter. If you're an umpire, they give you an unseen object and they call it a strike zone, and nobody seems to agree with you no matter what you call. ~ Doug Harvey
Photographer quotes by Doug Harvey
For me, Every day is Photography Day ~ Biju Karakkonam, Nature And Wildlife Photographer
Photographer quotes by Biju Karakkonam, Nature And Wildlife Photographer
You sort of have to be always aware, even when you're not thinking of shooting. That's when the best stuff happens. ~ Jay Maisel
Photographer quotes by Jay Maisel
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
Photographer quotes by W. Eugene Smith
We talk about the vulnerability involved in sharing our work publicly. I don't think we talk enough about the real vulnerability involved in making art; if we truly engage the process we are changed by it. ~ John Paul Caponigro
Photographer quotes by John Paul Caponigro
All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few photographs are less about objects and more about the space that contains them. Still fewer photographs are about light itself. ~ John Paul Caponigro
Photographer quotes by John Paul Caponigro
I'm flattered by the offers I receive, but there's no real strategy to the way I choose what to do these days. If I'm in a good mood and have the time, I'm more likely to consider it. Often the photographer and team are important factors, too. ~ Christy Turlington
Photographer quotes by Christy Turlington
I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I was younger, and I briefly worked as a stills photographer. ~ Roger Deakins
Photographer quotes by Roger Deakins
We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any time, or think they don't, on preparing themselves for the world out there - I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world. ~ Cindy Sherman
Photographer quotes by Cindy Sherman
If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person. ~ Jay Maisel
Photographer quotes by Jay Maisel
By temperament I am not unduly excitable and certainly not trigger-happy. I think twice before I shoot and very often do not shoot at all. By professional standards I do not waste a lot of film; but by the standards of many of my colleagues I probably miss quite a few of my opportunities. Still, the things I am after are not in a hurry as a rule. ~ Bill Brandt
Photographer quotes by Bill Brandt
I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify. ~ William Eggleston
Photographer quotes by William Eggleston
Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of the world and selects a picture. A photographer standing before houses and streets and people and trees and artifacts of a culture imposes an order on the scene - simplifies the jumble by giving it structure. He or she imposes this order by choosing a vantage point, choosing a frame, choosing a moment of exposure, and by selecting a plane of focus. ~ Stephen Shore
Photographer quotes by Stephen Shore
I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises. ~ Joan Fontcuberta
Photographer quotes by Joan Fontcuberta
I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system. ~ Chuck Close
Photographer quotes by Chuck Close
There's always a time in any series of work where you get to a certain point and your work is going steadily and each picture is better than the next, and then you sort of level off and that's when you realize that it's not that each picture is better then the next, it's that each picture up's the ante. And that every time you take one good picture, the next one has got to be better. ~ Sally Mann
Photographer quotes by Sally Mann
A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences. ~ Walter Rosenblum
Photographer quotes by Walter Rosenblum
If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer. ~ Elliott Erwitt
Photographer quotes by Elliott Erwitt
I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something. ~ William Eggleston
Photographer quotes by William Eggleston
When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. ~ Alfred Eisenstaedt
Photographer quotes by Alfred Eisenstaedt
I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture. ~ Alice Evans
Photographer quotes by Alice Evans
Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself. ~ Andre Kertesz
Photographer quotes by Andre Kertesz
I prefer to be noticed some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye ... ~ Ernst Haas
Photographer quotes by Ernst Haas
What I feel is that the picture-taking process, anyway a greater part of it, is an intuitive thing. You can't go out and logically plan a picture, but when you come back, reason then takes over and verifies or rejects whatever you've done. So that's why I say that reason and intuition are not in conflict-they strengthen each other. ~ Wynn Bullock
Photographer quotes by Wynn Bullock
In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe. ~ Ernst Haas
Photographer quotes by Ernst Haas
I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light. ~ Galen Rowell
Photographer quotes by Galen Rowell
I'm often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself that I'm a photographer and that this is my job. ~ Eugene Richards
Photographer quotes by Eugene Richards
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. ~ Mandy Baggot
Photographer quotes by Mandy Baggot
You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it. ~ Nobuyoshi Araki
Photographer quotes by Nobuyoshi Araki
What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone. ~ Annie Leibovitz
Photographer quotes by Annie Leibovitz
Edward Curtis was a photographer in the late 19th century who tried to document the rapidly disappearing Native Americans. He assembled a canon of work which, today, is exemplary and invaluable. ~ Rhys Ifans
Photographer quotes by Rhys Ifans
A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photographer quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson
You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else
and whichever is better you print. ~ Garry Winogrand
Photographer quotes by Garry Winogrand
One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the vital click shows the anatomy bare. In this, the photographer is invisible but essential. A computer releasing the shutter would always miss the special moment that the human sensibility can register. For this work, the photographer's instinct is his aid, his personality a hindrance. ~ Peter Brook
Photographer quotes by Peter Brook
What moves me about ... what's called technique ... is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them. ~ Diane Arbus
Photographer quotes by Diane Arbus
If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world. ~ Tod Papageorge
Photographer quotes by Tod Papageorge
The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking. ~ John Sexton
Photographer quotes by John Sexton
I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus. ~ Mary Ellen Mark
Photographer quotes by Mary Ellen Mark
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. ~ Ansel Adams
Photographer quotes by Ansel Adams
One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction. ~ Stanley Cavell
Photographer quotes by Stanley Cavell
I want to be the toughest photographer in the world. ~ Don McCullin
Photographer quotes by Don McCullin
There's a natural set of constraints with mobile phones that force you to be a better photographer by acknowledging and observing the world around you. ~ Kevin Systrom
Photographer quotes by Kevin Systrom
One shouldn't be only two photographers but thousands. ~ Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Photographer quotes by Jacques-Henri Lartigue
I'm a big fan of 'National Geographic', the magazine and the channel. Anything to do with the natural world. For years, when I was younger, I was convinced I would be a nature photographer, but that didn't pan out. ~ Tom Weston-Jones
Photographer quotes by Tom Weston-Jones
At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted. ~ Wynn Bullock
Photographer quotes by Wynn Bullock
I've been a photographer all these years ... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years. ~ Graham Nash
Photographer quotes by Graham Nash
My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas. ~ Jerry Uelsmann
Photographer quotes by Jerry Uelsmann
It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation. ~ Brassai
Photographer quotes by Brassai
It's interesting how much you can tell about someone from their friends. ~ Lindsey Kelk
Photographer quotes by Lindsey Kelk
Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer ~ Gordon Parks
Photographer quotes by Gordon Parks
Reality is greater than our dreams. ~ Frederick Sommer
Photographer quotes by Frederick Sommer
I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just like making beautiful pictures, sometimes I wander away from making a clear statement. ~ Sally Mann
Photographer quotes by Sally Mann
In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point. ~ John Sexton
Photographer quotes by John Sexton
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second. It's very instinctive. What you do is a fraction of a second, it's there and it's not there. But in this fraction of a second comes your past, comes your future, comes your relation with people, comes your ideology, comes your hate, comes your love - all together in this fraction of a second, it materializes there. ~ Sebastiao Salgado
Photographer quotes by Sebastiao Salgado
I thought I had a huge crush on a young Canadian photographer who was commissioned to go down to Australia to do a series, so I tried to figure out a way to follow him without getting in trouble with my parents, and that was by auditioning for their National Institute. ~ Deborah Kara Unger
Photographer quotes by Deborah Kara Unger
I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen. ~ Sally Schneider
Photographer quotes by Sally Schneider
Not everyone with a painting brush is an artist, likewise not everyone with a camera is a photographer ~ Ewlyn Fernando
Photographer quotes by Ewlyn Fernando
You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures. ~ William Eggleston
Photographer quotes by William Eggleston
I've been so lonely trying to become a photographer. If I'd known that before, I don't know if I had the courage to do it again. You get to a point where you feel that you have something that is your own. And if you don't find an audience for it, you are going to burst. ~ Robert Adams
Photographer quotes by Robert Adams
The desire to catch, as Bonnard hoped, the PASSING MOMENT is antithetical to being in the moment. The photographer is an observer to others' moments. The Picture People have dedicated themselves to this paradox, and consign themselves on either side of the equation. ~ Lynne Tillman
Photographer quotes by Lynne Tillman
[The photographer's task] is to describe the existing light ... Chances are, if you believe the light, you're going to believe that the things photographed existed in the world. ~ Henry Wessel, Jr.
Photographer quotes by Henry Wessel, Jr.
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