“If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph.” IfsHandsPersonalityPhotographRealism Author:Emile Gruppe
“I always like to meet the people I'm going to photograph. I need to have a conversation. I need to feel a vibe. I need to see what's going on in the person. I'm not just interested in physical beauty. I really need a personality.” PeopleNeedsFeelsPersonsPersonalityConversationPhotographPhysical Beauty Author:Mario Sorrenti
“I think that the photographer must completely control his picture and bring to it all his personality, and in this area most photographs never transcend being just snapshots. When a great photographer does infuse the snapshot with his personality and vision, it can be transformed into something truly moving and beautiful.” ThinkingDoeBeautifulMovingVisionPersonalityAreasPhotographerPhotographTransformedSnapshots Author:Duane Michals
“It seems to me that no one picture can ever be a final summation of a personality. There are so many facets in every human being that it is impossible to present them all in one photograph.” HumansSeemsHuman BeingsImpossiblePersonalityFinalsPhotographFacets Book:One Mind's Eye: The Portraits and Other Photographs of Arnold Newman Source: One Mind's Eye: The Portraits and Other Photographs of Arnold Newman
“Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental creation and the affirmation of a personality. What is marvelous about a photograph is that its possibilities are infinite; there aren't any subjects 'done to death'.” DoneSeemsEasyForgetSubjectsCreationPossibilityPersonalityPhotographyAspectInfinitePhotographMarvelousAffirmation Author:Gisele Freund
“I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.” IfsThinkingPersonsLyingPersonalityAmountPhotographCaptureSmall Amounts Author:Martin Schoeller
“Seeing a photograph of myself is often pretty jarring. Why is it that the vision I see of myself in a photo is so different than the one I see in a mirror - not to mention the "self" that I see in my mind's eye? Pondering it can pretty easily cast me into a vortex of self-doubt, wondering how the me that people experience - my voice, my personality, my creative expression - is regarded without my knowledge.” PeopleMindDifferentSelfEyeVoiceWonderVisionCreativeDoubtSeeingExpressionPersonalityMirrorsPhotographCastsPonderingSelf-doubtVortexCreative Expression Author:Keith Murray
“I've never been the type of photographer to live with people I photograph. You know, shoot heroin with them, that kind of thing. I respect those photographers that work that way. But part of my personality is a certain amount of distance, and part of my attraction to the medium of photography is this distance where you're in the world, but you're removed from it.” PeopleWorldKindPersonalityPhotographyDistancePhotographerPhotographAttractionHeroin Author:Alec Soth