Photographer Quotes - Page 26

Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.

A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living.

Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard.

I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!

Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it.

I'm not a nice girl. I'm a photographer.

All the photographers were trying to just get me off, which was hilarious. But it was very, very amusing.

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

...a photographer must be aware of and concerned about the words that accompany a picture. These words should be considered as carefully as the lighting, exposure and composition of the photograph.

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

Pop art is for everyone.

[Postmodern photography] implies the exhaustion of the image universe: it suggests that a photographer can find more than enough images already existing in the world without the bother of making new ones.

I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture.

Several people feel I have photographed God. May be.

My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.

There was a time when one looked over one's shoulder with an ironical smile at the photographer and when photography as a profession seemed almost invariably a target for ridicule. That time is now over.

I'd like to briefly state the accomplishment that we expect from a photographer. He must make the person being photographed forget that he has eaten from the tree of knowledge.

However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced.

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.