Photographer Quotes - Page 21

All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver.

I use my music to tune myself.

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

Photographers are always voyeuristic, and they do sort of live vicariously. I think every artist does.

When I first asked to take pictures of women at their homes, I was using my formal camera and I struggled to get the shots because I was still very much in the role of the photographer. Then the next time I had this little digital camera and their response to me would be completely different - I was a friend and I got new kinds of pictures. I was always treading a line between photographer and friend.

Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn't mean I'm a photographer.

Perhaps the street photographer has been replaced by the security camera.

I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I had been. So I conclude that something in nature says, 'Come and take my photograph.' So I do, regardless of how I feel.

While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.

As a landscape photographer we should be open to possibilities, for one thing often leads to another.

If you look at the greatest models, it was because they were muses to photographers. They collaborated with the artist and they created the kind of images that become iconic.

I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

Thoughtfulness begins with seeing. My job as a photographer is to make that seeing easier. What we appreciate, what fascinates us, we will strive to preserve.

Learning how to use different formats has made me a better photographer. When I started working in medium format, it made me a better 35 mm photographer. When I started working in 4x5, it made me a better medium-format photographer.

I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was a great distortion of contemporary life. Photographers were interested only in certain things. A visually interesting place, people who were either very rich or very poor, and nostalgia.

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

A lot of models achieve that kind of iconic position by working primarily with one photographer.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.

I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed.

I don't know who said 'pictures don't lie.' It couldn't have been a photographer.

That's true, because I'm a photographer now.

There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred] Stieglitz. I draw from all of them. You're supposed to steal from the good ones.

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.