Photography Quotes
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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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I realized that one of the differences between news photography and dance photography was that the former has to tell a specific story, whereas all a dance photograph had to be was visually interesting.
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Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.
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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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If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.
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Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.
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I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras.
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Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
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Many people misunderstand me - I'm quite happy to be called a photographer. All of a sudden, the art world has caught up with photography, and they are trying to hijack us.
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I've been taking photographs since I was a teenager, and fashion has taught me a lot more about photography. It's definitely inspired me.
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I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
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I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.
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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 had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.
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I would love to study photography.
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All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.
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Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.
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I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.
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I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.
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My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.
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I started out on photography accidentally. A policeman came to a stop at the end of my street, and a guy knifed him at the end of my street. That's how I became a photographer. I photographed the gangs that I went to school with.
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I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos. 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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To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
Elliott Erwitt -
Not only did she [Marilyn Monroe] master her own image, create it and ultimately control it, she was the subject of many of the great masters of photography of the 20th century.
