Photographer Quotes - Page 16

A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.

If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

Know - how is worthless unless guided by know - why and know - when.

I can't talk about my style. It us kind of difficult for me. I don't like styles. I only like taking photos and expressing myself through them.

The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)

Photography is my passion.

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.

My pictures are complex and so am I.

Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.

I do what feels natural, but I can't say I haven't thought about it.

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues.

The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.

I would always cast Meryl Streep for everything. I would do with something inspired by the work of Guy Bourdin, my favorite photographer.

Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.