Brassaï Quotes
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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 -
I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
Imogen Cunningham -
Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
Harold Feinstein -
I hate having my photograph taken.
E. L. James -
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 -
The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.
Weegee
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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
Garry Winogrand -
Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
Garry Winogrand -
I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
Garry Winogrand -
A photograph can look any way.
Garry Winogrand -
There is no special way a photograph should look.
Garry Winogrand -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have the irrational power of the photograph to bear away our faith.
Andre Bazin -
I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.
David LaChapelle -
I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.
David LaChapelle
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We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
Ansel Adams -
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
Ansel Adams -
At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.
Manning Marable -
I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic.
Andrew Dice Clay -
For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.
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