Photography Quotes
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
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I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.
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I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.
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The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end with the click of a button, it starts there. Printing is so exciting.
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There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.
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The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of photography with death. Immobility and silence are not only two objective aspects of death, they are also its main symbols, they figure it.
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What I did, anybody can do.
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'America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age.
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A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
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I am not one of those people who lives for work. I enjoy sculpting and photography and tennis and swimming. I simply do not have enough time. My life is not in control.
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I am at war with the obvious.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.
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The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?
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The main thing I love about street photography is that you find the answers you don't see at the fashion shows. You find information for readers so they can visualize themselves.
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Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.
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Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.
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If people are fans of 'Mindfreak,' they are going to be so excited with 'Believe.' They are actually going to see those illusions that people think can only happen with trick photography.
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In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me.
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All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.
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Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation
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There are a lot of things about Russian culture, art, music, photography and literature that I'm love with.
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Photography has always been about capturing light.
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I think there is an element of magic in photography - light, chemistry, precious metals - a certain alchemy. You can wield a camera like a magic wand almost. Murmur the right words and you can conjure up proof of a dream. I believe in wonder. I look for it in my life every day; I find it in the most ordinary things.
