Photograph Quotes
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For each final photograph, I'll have shot loads of film. I suppose people don't see all that. But when someone looks at a piece of work, they know something has gone into it, even if they can't lay their finger on what it is.
Catherine Yass -
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
Ansel Adams
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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 -
Maybe the wealth we wanted as children is this, I thought: not strongboxes full of diamonds and gold coins but a bathtub, to immerse yourself like this every day, to eat bread, salami, prosciutto, to have a lot of space even in the bathroom, to have a telephone, a pantry and icebox full of food, a photograph in a silver frame on the sideboard that shows you in your wedding dress—to have this entire house, with the kitchen, the bedroom, the dining room, the two balconies, and the little room where I am studying, and where, even though Lila hasn’t said so, soon, when it comes, a baby will sleep.
Elena Ferrante -
When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I am seeing in the photographs.
Minor White -
Sometimes we work so fast that we don't really understand what's going on in front of the camera. We just kind of sense that, 'Oh my God, it's significant!' and photograph impulsively while trying to get the exposure right. Exposure occupies my mind while intuition frames the images.
Minor White -
I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning.
Errol Morris -
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
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One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.
Minor White -
Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.
Minor White -
You photograph with all your ideology.
Sebastiao Salgado -
All photographs are self-portraits.
Minor White -
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
Ansel Adams -
My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.
Sebastiao Salgado
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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Ansel Adams -
Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.
Milan Kundera -
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
Ansel Adams -
The model is just one element of the photograph. There's also the location, the light - all that junk. It helps if the girl is really good-looking, but a girl can be not super good-looking and it'd still be a really good photograph. I ask people to send some photos of where they live if that's where I'm shooting. I go for shabby places over too-nice places, because most of these girls are going to look better if they're not made to look rich.
Richard Kern -
I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.
Saoirse Ronan -
A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.
Ansel Adams