Photography Quotes
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Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.
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You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.
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My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.
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With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.
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The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.
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There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
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...the very basics of photography can be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?
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Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see.
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The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
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The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye. It can see by invisible light. It can see in the past, present, and future. Instead of using the camera only to reproduce objects, I wanted to use it to make what is invisible to the eye - visible.
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I had been teaching myself photography.
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I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.
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The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us.
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We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)
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There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.
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One of the elements of photography is, just by nature, journalistic. It's some kind of documentation. The most successful pictures to me are with an interesting looking girl. They're not being provocative. They're just presenting their drugs to you, showing you what they take. There's a good-looking girl, but here's this thing about her that's not so cool. It makes you feel a little uneasy.
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Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.
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Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.
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I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself.
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I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.
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Wilderness, to me, is a spiritual necessity. The mysterious spiritual experience of being close to natural restored my soul after the death of his son. My experience reinforced by dedication to use the art of photography as an inspiration for others to work together to save nature's places of spiritual sanctuary for future generations.
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...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.
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Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.
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I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.
