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“I never really learned photography.”
“The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.”
“I’m really interested in photography, like every other human being.”
“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
“The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.”
“Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it’s not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.”
“Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can’t obtain it, the more we want it.”
“When I found photography, I found this other kind of portraiture of black families and black people who were photographing themselves or having themselves photographed in ways they wanted to be seen.”
“Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.”
“My father did advertising photography.”
“My use of the medium – photography – is in some ways traditional.”
“I like photography as a recording device. It’s the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have.”
“When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn’t even know how to aim the camera in those days.”
“I’m a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank.”
“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.”
“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.”
“It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.”
“Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.”
“My photography changed from being more documentary-like to arranging things more, and that came into being partly because I started doing music videos, and I incorporated some things from the music videos into my photography again, by arranging things more.”
“The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.”
“There are some elements of digital photography that I don’t really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.”
“The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.”
“Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it’s own; if it doesn’t, the thing collapses.”
“I’d really likely to shoot wildlife documentaries. I watched so many of those as a child, and I’m quite into wildlife and love photography as well, so that’s something I’d like to do.”
“Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.”
“For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.”
“I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.”
“Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.”
“Photography helps people to see.”
“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.”
“Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.”
“I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.”
“I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.”
“Photography can be a powerful instrument for change, and photojournalists can tell stories that make a difference.”
“I just love the world of photography.”
“I’m studying art and photography, like film and digital – a mix of both.”
“I love football, but I’m also very passionate about photography and film.”
“I studied photography in high school, and straight away, I knew it was something I was interested in.”
“Madonna is her own Hollywood studio – a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.”
“I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.”
“In terms of digital photography, I continue to print and use film for the most part. I still shoot with film, 21/4 film specifically, and I love it. I love it because I know what it does, how it really responds to light.”
“The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.”
“The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it’s an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography.”
“Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It’s the hardest medium in which to have some sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.”
“I became obsessed with the storytelling of photography and going on little adventures.”
“I take a lot of pride in my photography.”
“I had become obsessed with the control-freak aspect of photography and with the rising importance of the image in our social media age it ended up working.”
“Contrast is what makes photography interesting.”
“Photography is a very important part of my life.”
“The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.”
“I had no idea how I wanted to get into photography, but I just knew I wanted to do it.”
“And I’m a pretty avid photographer, I’ve been into photography for years now, so I try to spend some of my free time with that.”
“I’ve been taking photographs since I was a teenager, and fashion has taught me a lot more about photography. It’s definitely inspired me.”
“As a photographer, I’m interested in how dramatically photography has changed. Most images are not real or are composites, and most of us don’t even know it anymore.”
“I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.”
“I did painting before I did photography.”
“Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.”
“I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.”
“All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.”
“People criticized me for my photography. They said it’s not art.”
“I’m a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying ‘I’m a photographer.’”
“Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That’s the thing about painting, photography, cinema.”
“I’m really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation – I was used to the old 35mm cameras.”
“Photography is very personal to me. God knows how many rolls of film I have that I’ve never shared.”
“I picked up photography in high school.”
“I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do – that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.”
“I love photography. I love the imagery. I love what I do.”
“Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.”
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
“Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model.”
“Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.”
“I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it’s pretty much trivialized.”
“Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It’s a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.”
“Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.”
“Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.”
“I’ve got a great collection of photography.”
“I love Instagram and photography.”
“I love to play the guitar. I also love photography and fashion.”
“I like to get rid of things; I don’t collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.”
“I would love to study photography.”
“I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.”
“I came to photography by accident.”
“I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.”
“Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don’t get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.”
“I always saw photography as a way to get to film.”
“When I was a kid, I loved photography, and I loved makeup.”
“The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.”
“I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.”
“There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.”
“I had done some work when I was starting in with photography on westerns, and photographing them was the greatest pleasure I had. If I was ever qualified for anything, it would have had to do with making westerns. But as I started working on pictures with people like Katharine Hepburn, I got further away from the thing I really liked to do.”
“I’ve always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it’s photography or movie-making.”
“I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background.”
“I’m so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.”
“I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.”
“We really care about photography at ‘Vanity Fair.’”
“I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.”
“Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.”
“I love photography, and I love the art of photography.”
“In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.”
“Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.”
“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.”
“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.”
“Speaking of photography, while the Apollo 8 crew shot hundreds of photos, there was one that got everybody’s attention: a blue-and-white Earth rising over a gray moonscape.”
“Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.”
“Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.”
“Photography imitates everything and expresses nothing.”
“I don’t think there’s any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.”
“I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn’t go to it out of hunger.”
“Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.”
“I’ve always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.”
“I love photography… I’d like to write a show about photography.”
“Photography must be integrated with the story.”
“Photography is a big part of my life: taking photographs, being around photographers.”
“I was a dog groomer. I delivered radiators; I was a photography producer. I typed classified ads for many years. It was my longest term job – years of typing classified ads while I was in bands.”
“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.”
“I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.”
“I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.”
“Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I’m interested in a lot of creative stuff.”
“I love to paint, do ceramics, photography. I got a lot of side things that I like to do.”
“Imagine there wasn’t photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it’s what our history is.”
“Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.”
“If I had to start over, I’d pursue photography – probably to the exclusion of acting.”
“I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I’ll paint my kids. And I’ll occasionally do some photography.”
“I like the idea of infinite human potential, and a lot of my photography and filmmaking has been focused on that.”
“Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.”
“Photography has always been capable of manipulation.”
“You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.”
“I played in bands very very young. I painted; I did photography, all kinds of things.”
“I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.”
“Drones ply the liminal space between the physical and the digital – pilots fly them, but aren’t in them. They are versatile and fascinating objects – the things they can do range from the mundane (aerial photography) to the spectacular – killing people, for example.”
“George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.”
“I had done a lot of rock ‘n’ roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock ‘n’ roll bands.”
“Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn’t.”
“So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.”
“He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.”
“I opened up Shutterstock to the whole world. I created a contributor community that anyone could give stock photography a shot.”
“I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.”
“I am a huge obsessor with photography.”
“I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography.”
“Over the last few millennia we’ve invented a series of technologies – from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone – that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.”
“I am someone who takes pleasure in exploring the full scale of the medium photography. I am a photographer.”
“Germany led the world in photography and film: ‘The Cabinet of Dr Caligari’ and ‘Metropolis’ are works that, to this day, film buffs revere.”
“I used to do a lot of casual photography – back in the olden times when one used film – but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.”
“When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.”
“I would say, if I had any hobbies, I love photography. I love taking photographs.”
“I know about photography – I’m really good at it.”
“I’m a Banksy fan. I’m also a fan of Chris Hobe, Mister Totem, Drew Wootten, Mad Clout, Hense and Sever, in visual and street art. And Jonathan Mannion and Shane Nash in photography.”
“My son does a little photography, but he’s not involved the way I was.”
“I don’t need the money I generate from photography to support myself.”
“I find the working pattern to be the same in Bollywood as well as Tollywood. Especially because most directors of photography from the Telugu industry operate in Bollywood, too.”
“My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it’s been very well published in the U.K.”
“When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.”
“All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.”
“I first worked on sports photography, and it was until 2002, when I was already 32 years old, that I really started working and enjoying Africa’s wildlife.”
“I’ve been working with photography for many years.”
“I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.”
“I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I’ve been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the ’70s.”
“I just wanted to be creative, so I did photography, and that led me ultimately to music.”
“One advantage of photography is that it’s visual and can transcend language.”
“I’ve seen so many photographers rush to do books the minute they start shooting, but one great thing about photography is that the images don’t go away, so the more I sit with these images, the more I learn which ones have had the most impact.”
“Photography of any living being, according to Taliban rule, was illegal. So when I went to Afghanistan, immediately I was worried about photographing people. But it was what I wanted: to show what life was like under the Taliban, specifically for women.”
“When ‘Humsafar’ did well, every single person associated with it shined. Its DoP [Director of Photography], Shehzad Kashmiri, went on to become a huge director. So, a good and successful project just blesses everybody.”
“Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.”
“Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I’m not sure.”
“Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention – I’m like the Madonna of photography.”
“Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.”
“Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.”
“TV-makers usually don’t know much about photography.”
“There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the U.K., there are no more than five, and they’re all in London.”
“I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad.”
“Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It’s not really photography.”
“In the modern road-running era, digital photography has intersected with weekend-warrior culture, creating a golden age of social-media humblebragging. For some, the marathon course is sacred ground. For others, it’s a personal movie set.”
“I don’t think that digital photography is romantic yet. It’s not sympathetic the way that film is.”
“For example, Michael Mann’s film Collateral – there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.”
“Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.”
“I’ve always been super into photography and the visuals that support my music.”
“When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.”
“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.”
“I never liked dance photography; it’s very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.”
“I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.”
“All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.”
“Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.”
“Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.”
“My studio, nicknamed ‘Funny Farm,’ is in a hidden location. It’s very private. Not only do I create my photography there, but it is also where I write my books and create music.”
“Photography has always been about capturing light.”
“I’m constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.”
“I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.”
“I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it’s very physical.”
“I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.”
“My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.”
“Photography is an accident.”
“I also paint, draw and I’m into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You’re presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they’re going to ‘get’ what you’re doing. Some don’t, some do.”
“Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.”
“I’ve never gotten a release from any person. I’m not a businessman; I’m on the side of common sense. Releases ruin the atmosphere of photography.”
“Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time.”
“Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.”
“I came up in photography, and Dust Bowl-era photography is a lot of the reason that I got behind the camera in the first place.”
“First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography.”
“My story with film is kind of different because I started with photography because my father was a photo buff. He had all sort of cameras, and I grew up with that.”
“I had been teaching myself photography.”
“There’s something about light field photography that’s just magical.”
“My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.”
“I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of what is happening, not just the outside, but the inside out.”
“I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today’s existence.”
“A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.”
“I understood the craft of photography when done by an artist is art.”
“I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.”
“The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody’s hand.”
“I never read about photography.”
“I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.”
“Essentially what photography is is life lit up.”
“Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment – this very moment – to stay.”
“Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.”
“Archaeologists have used aerial photographs to map archaeological sites since the 1920s, while the use of infrared photography started in the 1960s, and satellite imagery was first used in the 1970s.”
“I really like photography, and I’d like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.”
“Photography is about finding things. And painting is different – it’s about making something.”
“My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.”
“Digital photography makes you a better photographer.”
“I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.”
“I was writing when I was very young, and then I became interested in everything – I wanted to do photography. I wanted to act. I wanted to write plays, and then I wanted to film and to paint, but I felt that film had a condition that reunites everything.”
“Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it’s too much.”
“I’m not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.”
“I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.”
“Of course, I won’t be abandoning photography, because it is my life.”
“Photography is my passion. Whenever I get time, I click.”
“The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.”
“Any time you talk about the look of the film, it’s not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.”
“I love photography. I love rockets.”
“When we started in the early ’60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn’t have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.”
“The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.”
“Maybe I’ll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.”
“I love creating. I had been really into photography when I was in college.”
“Videos are more like photography. It’s not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.”
“One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.”
“Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.”
“As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography – digital photography – to post photos on my website on a daily basis.”
“I really got into filmmaking through photography.”
“Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.”
“Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that ‘photography’ and ‘seeing’ are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography is, perhaps ironically, a challenge to curators, practitioners, and critics.”
“Looking out at the photographic landscape that surrounds us – the world of images and image-making that we inhabit – it seems obvious that photography has undergone dramatic changes in its technical, cultural, and critical composition.”
“Perhaps ‘photography’ has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field of inquiry. In other words, perhaps ‘photography,’ as a meaningful cultural trope, is over.”
“It’s the first time that I’ve ever had an art show based on a film, but it’s a photography collage.”
“Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.”
“In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.”
“French photography was basically poetic, and mine was vulgar and brash and violent, except that there’s never any violence in the photographs: it’s only in the photographic style.”
“I find it satisfying that what I’ve done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look at and how they look at things.”
“Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.”
“I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.”
“I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can’t. Lions were my professor of photography.”
