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For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

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• Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Photograph

• I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Me
  • Hollywood
  • Photograph

• Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • See
  • Photograph
  • Details

• I hate having my photograph taken.

  

  E. L. James
  • Hate
  • Taken
  • Photograph

• People put barriers up in your path, and one of those barriers is age. They tell you, "You're too old. You don't photograph so well anymore." I know I don't photograph so well anymore, so what can I do? I can do something different, where it doesn't matter as much how I look.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

  

  Weegee
  • Beautiful
  • Society
  • Photograph

• I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Different
  • Interest
  • Photograph

• Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Photography
  • Battle
  • Form

• I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • World
  • Looks
  • Photography

• In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Language
  • Ends
  • Photograph

• A photograph can look any way.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Way
  • Looks
  • Photography

• I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Said
  • Transformation
  • Photograph

• There is no special way a photograph should look.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Should
  • Looks
  • Special

• For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do with the contest between content and form.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Interesting
  • Kind
  • Problem

• My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Up
  • World
  • Interesting

• My project could be only to photograph as I felt and desired, to regulate a pleasant form of living, to get up in the morning-free, to feel the trees, the grass, the water, sky or buildings, people-everything that affects us; and to photograph that which I saw and have always felt.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • People
  • Up
  • Free

• I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Teaching

• Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible for how it [the photograph] looks. And it's not plastic, in a way. The problem is unique in photographic terms.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Problem
  • Unique
  • Term

• I photograph from the heart. I adore little babies and I think that shows. My images are really very positive, very simple, and from the heart. Babies speak a universal language.

  

  Anne Geddes
  • Heart
  • Language
  • Photograph

• The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.

  

  Alex Webb
  • Eye
  • Photograph
  • Viewer

• I turned off the projector and Alex mumbled something in her sleep and turned over. I said, "Everything is fine, I'm going home now," and said it just so I could say I'd said it in case she was upset later that I'd left without telling her. I thought about kissing her on the forehead but rejected the idea immediately; whatever physical intimacy had opened up between us had dissolved with the storm; even that relatively avuncular gesture would be strange for both of us now. More than that: it was as though the physical intimacy with Alex, just like the sociability with strangers or the aura around objects, wasn't just over, but retrospectively erased. Because those moments had been enabled by a future that had never arrived, they could not be remembered from this future that, at and as the present, had obtained; they'd faded from the photograph.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Home
  • Idea
  • Photograph

• I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-A-R-T! I mean, S-M-A-R-T!

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Mean
  • Smart

• For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

  

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