Photograph Quotes
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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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The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.
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The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs.
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It's important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation - to become a thing different from what we are used to, to be another version of itself.
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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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There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.
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It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!
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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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You learn to see by practice. It's Just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look around at things, the more you see. The more you photograph, the more you realize what can be photographed and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.
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All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.
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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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However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.
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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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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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No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.
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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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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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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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It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.
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It's never as good the second time. Things don't get better. You can't always go back, a lot of it has been erased. The photograph is a record of it having existed.
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A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.
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A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
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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.
