Photography Quotes - Page 21

Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.

Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.

The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.

In black and white you suggest, in color you state.

Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies.

I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.

For photography is a way to capture the moment - not just any moment, but the important one, this one moment out of all time when your subject is revealed to the fullest - that moment of perfection which comes once and is not repeated.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

God gave me photography so that I could pray with my eyes.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience.

In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

I have gradually confused photography with life.

I wasn't very ambitious. I think that's the solution. I just took things as they came. I wouldn't say I didn't have any problem, but I didn't care. I didn't think I was going to save the world by doing photography as some of these people do. I was just having a good time doing it, and so I still had a good time no matter what I had to photograph.

If you love something, the work will be just fine.