Photography Quotes
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I'm happy to say that my knowledge about Basildon is rather limited, particularly I was there only about three times. All my visits there were with DM and at a time within the early days when I was very interested in photography and always carried a shoulder bag with camera equipment around with me. My most insistent memory of Basildon is to sit in a disgusting pub and to get told I better shouldn't cross my legs and should hide the shoulder bag because otherwise I could be beaten up because someone might think I was a poof.
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George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.
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Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.
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The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed
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I did photography in summer camp; I did it in high school. The only hard decision I've had to make was whether to go towards photo or film. And I ultimately realized that the type of photo I was interested in was actually photojournalism. And it's a very individualist career, whereas film is a very team-driven medium. So that's why I chose film.
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The most important part of fashion photography, for me, is not the models; it's not the clothes. It's that you are responsible for defining what a woman today is. That, I think, is my job.
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Why do we use flash at all? Because photography is not the same as eyesight. We can see in low-light situations where cameras, dependent upon a physical process to record visual information, are half blind.
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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
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Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.
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Postmodern photography implies the exhaustion of the image universe: it suggests that a photographer can find more than enough images already existing in the world without the bother of making new ones.
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It was as though I found the language I'd wanted from photography; the expression that I got partly from photography, I got completely from cooking.
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Imagine there wasn't photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it's what our history is.
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For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.
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I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.
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Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.
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The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by publications using it, has more influence on public thinking than any other branch of photography.
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Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
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I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.
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I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.
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The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.
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I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.
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To be able to see in concrete terms what was created in a fraction of a second is a rare luxury. Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode – from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multi-media montage – the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case, the eyes have it, and the imagination will always soar farther than was expected.
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I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.
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Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.
