“I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.” BigsCamerasProofIdiotSnapshotsEyesight Author:Terry Richardson
“The idea that the snapshot would be thought of as a cult or movement is very tiresome to me and, I'm sure, confusing to others. It's a swell word I've always liked. It probably came about because it describes a basic fact of photography. In a snap, or small portion of time, all that the camera can consume in breadth and bite and light is rendered in astonishing detail: all the leaves on a tree, as well as the tree itself and all its surroundings.” WellsIdeasFactsLightWould BeTreeMovementPhotographyCamerasDetailsBitesPortionsCultConfusingSurroundingsAstonishingSnapsBreadthSnapshotsTiresome Author:Lee Friedlander
“All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This surely is like playing 'Chopsticks' on a concert grand piano.” UseSimpleModernFineCamerasPianoConcertsSnapshotsChopsticks Author:Sam Haskins
“Learning that aesthetic as a kid - seeing those photos - made me think that that's what photos are supposed to look like. I never understood snapshots. I was looking at them like, "This is horrible; that's not what a picture is supposed to look like." I was taught by these photos. So when I picked up the camera, though I had never done it before, I kind of already knew what I was doing.” ThinkingLooksKindMadeDoneKidsSeeingTaughtUnderstoodCamerasHorribleAestheticSnapshots Author:Jeff Vespa
“What most artists using photography feel that they need to do is to show that they are serious, that they are not taking snapshots. To point a camera at something does not qualify you as an artist because everybody has done that.” NeedsFeelsDoeDoneShowsArtistSeriousPhotographyCamerasSnapshots Author:Wolfgang Tillmans
“At the beginning, people laughed at me because I was using snappies. Sometimes, a celebrity would look at my camera and go, Oh, I've got one of those. I'd feel like handing it to them and saying, Well, you take the pictures then. But I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.” PeopleFeelsWellsLooksSometimesBigsCamerasProofIdiotLaughedSnapshotsEyesight Author:Terry Richardson
“What does it mean to go deeper? Taking pictures when you're more emotional or sorrowful, or having sex? I just want to have really boring snapshots - people just standing in front of a camera taking pictures with a smile.” PeopleWantMeanDoeSexFrontsEmotionalStandingCamerasBoringDeeperHaving SexSnapshotsSorrowfulTaking Pictures Author:Nikki S. Lee
“I don't want to carry big things around with me. I'm lazy. The snapshot camera, you just carry it around and take the picture. You don't need to think about anything. People in the street are not going to wait for you with a big camera. They would freak out. With a snapshot camera, they are comfortable.” PeopleThinkingWantNeedsBigsWaitingStreetsComfortableCamerasLazyFreakBig ThingsSnapshots Author:Nikki S. Lee
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” InspirationalSilenceCreativityFocusPhotographyCamerasPhotographerPhotographConcentrationInadequateSelf ExpressionSnapshotsPhotography By PhotographersInspirational PhotographySilence SpeaksUnclearGreat PhotographyCamera And PhotographyInspiring PhotographyInspiring NatureLandscape PhotographyDigital PhotographyFilm PhotographyPhotography And FilmCapturing A Moment PhotographyPhotography And LightSilence And PeaceProfessional Photographer Author:Ansel Adams
“I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.” ThinkingFeelsBigsArtistSongImagineApproachCamerasClicksBig PictureSnapshots Author:Steve Vai
“I don’t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I don’t travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost.” WritingMindReasonBigsRememberLostFeltForgetMistakeRecordsPaperCamerasHolidayPensRelianceDiariesBotheredSnapshotsBig MistakeJilted Author:Alex Garland
“My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.” PeoplePhotographyCamerasPhotographerPhotographPortraitsSnapshotsCamera And PhotographySelf Portrait PhotographyBlack And White PhotographyCapturing A Moment Photography Author:Richard Avedon
“If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.” IfsKnowsKnowingPhotographyCamerasPhotographerPhotographSnapshotsPhotography By PhotographersBlack And White PhotographyGood PhotographyLeica Author:Robert Doisneau