Photography Quotes
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I would love to study 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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One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.
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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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Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.
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I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.
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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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Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.
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The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.
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I prefer black and white and portrait photography. I like old, you know, interesting faces, so I think black and white brings out the contrast.
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Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.
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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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Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.
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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.
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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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There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
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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 have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite people to make their self-portraits. I see myself as their walking photo booth.
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The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.
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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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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 -
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
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For me, photography is not just about exposing film, it's about exposing the viewer to something new, a place they haven't gone before, but most importantly, to people that they might be afraid of.
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What I did, anybody can do.
