Photograph Quotes
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In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places on the planet and photograph them in the most honest way I know, with my point of view, and of course it is in black and white, because it is the only thing I know how to do.
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I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used.
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The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.
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... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated - as though it had created itself.
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Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.
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The spiritual aspect of my work has more to do with the sense that things in the world can be perceived and accepted as being in some respect alive. I try to approach everything that I photograph with this sense of wide-eyed awe.
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In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the greater experience of viewing the work. So that you forget you are looking at a painting, or a photograph.
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I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.
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When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less "how."
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If you open up a magazine and there's a photograph of you with a giant red circle around your thigh, like, look at this cellulite, any person - I don't care what you do - would be mortified. It's no wonder people get crazy about it.
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A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?
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I don't consider my photographs fashion photographs. The photographs were for fashion, but at the same time they had an ulterior motive, something more to do with the world in general.
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There is a word we haven't used yet: virginity... To make a photograph, the plate must be virgin, but your eye as well.
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A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.
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Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If you photograph well, that's enough. I have a terrible time distinguishing one from another. Girls wear their hair the same, and are much too anorexic-looking.
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All profound changes in consciousness, by their very nature, bring with them characteristic amnesias. Out of such oblivions, in specific historical circumstances, spring narratives… The photograph… is only the most peremptory of a huge modern accumulation of documentary evidence… which simultaneously records a certain apparent continuity and emphasizes its loss from memory. Out of this estrangement comes a conception of personhood, identity… which, because it cannot be “remembered”, must be narrated.
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What is it that angers us?... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph.
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I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River.
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You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire
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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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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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People don't believe they've experienced the event unless they've taken a photograph.
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My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that extends my natural ability and desire for meaningful organization. I need it to survive.
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The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.
