Photographing Quotes
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A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?
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I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.
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Photographing a cake can be art.
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When I’m photographing I see life.
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I don't think there's any kind of preparation for sudden celebrity. I think you almost have this slight nervous breakdown when that kind of media attention happens. I mean, you're doing the same kind of thing that you do all the time, only you have to make these weird adjustments. Like, you're buying a slice of pizza and somebody's outside photographing you which is weird - that's not normal! It's very uncomfortable.
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Sometimes something is so frightening I must look at it this closely or dismiss it altogether. Sometimes it's so stunningly beautiful I feel completely left out. With either extreme, photographing makes me have to deal with it.
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Photographing plants makes you look carefully and become aware of the many solutions plants provide to human problems.
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It doesn't matter if you're photographing a porter in a market in Marrakech or you're photographing the king of Morroco. You have the same sympathetic approach to everybody. You be nice to everybody, basically.
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Ultimately, the reward is the process - the process of photographing and discovering and trying to understand why and what am I photographing.
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When you start photographing yourself, you are going to be amazed at all the things you find out about yourself, and you'll be glad you did.
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When you start photographing somebody, it's like a lustful relationship and there's all the excitement of new flesh.
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You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to see it objectively. Like watching from the audience a play you already know by heart.
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I'm photographing all the time. I'm such a visual person and I don't want to miss that moment.
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I’m talking to him and photographing, but I can do that because I knew him.
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I liked watching them, all three of them around my truck. I wanted time to stop because everything seemed so simple, Dante and Legs falling in love with each other, Dante's mom and dad remembering something about their youth as they examined my truck, and me, the proud owner. I had something of value– even if it was just a truck that brought out a sweet nostalgia in people. It was as if my eyes were a camera and I was photographing the moment, knowing that I would keep that photograph forever.
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There's nothing worth photographing more than 100 yards from the car...
