Photograph Quotes
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I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.
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My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.
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I imagined Dad beside me: “It’s pretty,” he’d say. “But pretty isn’t enough for a great photograph. Show me why I care. What’s the story?
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I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it to refer to photographs they believe are loosely organized, or casually made, whatever you want to call it. Whatever terms you like. The fact is, when they're talking about snapshots they're talking about the family album picture, which is one of the most precisely made photographs.
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However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.
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A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.
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I have to photograph where I am.
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You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.
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The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed
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I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.
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No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.
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Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera.
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I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.
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Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.
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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.
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The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs.
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A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
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A photograph can look any way.
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Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had found in the Andromeda Nebula that appeared and disappeared on photographs of that object. The famous astronomer very patiently explains that these objects could not be stars because the Nebula was a nearby gaseous cloud within our own Milky Way system. Shapley takes his handkerchief from his pocket and wipes the identifying marks off the back of the photographic plate.
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A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.
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A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.
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Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.
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If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.
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All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.
