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“My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.”

World Real Beautiful Fun Wish Fantasy Photograph Celebration Celebration Of Life Fun Life

Author:Ryan McGinley

“I don't even know what an 'It' girl is. As far as I'm concerned, an 'It' girl is somebody who doesn't do anything except go to parties and get her photograph taken.”

Knows Girl Party Taken Concerned Photograph

Author:Sienna Miller

“For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also to make sure the right people hear it. When you photograph somebody who is in pain or discomfort, they trust you to make sure the images will act as their advocate.”

People Stories Pain Responsibility Photography Empathy Photograph Honestly Documentaries Discomfort Great Responsibility Documentary Photography

Author:Giles Duley

“I feel like I need to start wearing a T-shirt saying 'This is not a photo opportunity'. People are so lovely but you do find that when you're out you spend 40% of your time posing for photographs.”

People Needs Feels Opportunity Photograph Lovely Shirts T Shirt Posing

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!”

People Want Persons Has Beens Eye Courses Space Views Taken Sick Exciting Cameras Tired Photograph Hearing Mechanism Astronaut

Author:Burt Rutan

“Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject.”

Trying Play Fantasy Subjects Honest Mirrors Photographer Photograph

Author:Tim Walker

“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.”

Kind Two Enough Moments Together Humanity Vision One Thing Photography Photographer Photograph Realism Photography By Photographers Great Photography Containment Film Photography Photography And Film Good Photography

Author:Robert Frank

“This stupid celebrity thing is just a consequence of being good at what you do. I mean, no one would photograph David Beckham if he wasn't the best attacking midfielder in the country - much as I hate Man. U!”

Ifs Men Mean Country Hate Stupid Consequence I Hate Photograph Be Good Attacking Beckham Stupid Celebrity Midfielders I Hate Men

Author:Nick Moran

“The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.”

Conscience Abuse Photograph Reports Shock Treatment Prisoner Humiliating Degrading Physical Abuse

Author:Ed Markey

“The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.”

People Asks Circumstances My Family Photograph

Author:John Hodgman

“Photograph each day so we can live forever”

Forever Photograph Each Day Live Forever

Author:Andy Biersack

“Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.”

Knows Stuff Records Tradition Gold England Photograph Awards Bathroom

Author:Adele

“Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.”

Reality Photograph Curious Indicators

Book:how to save your own life

Source: how to save your own life

“I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they must photograph, things they have to try to shoot even before they master the intricacies of making dye transfer prints.”

Trying Might Careers Students Masters Photographer Photograph Print Transfers Intricacy

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight … through over many years [I] still find it embarrassing to use the word beauty, I fear I will be attacked for it, but I still believe in it.”

Years Believe Stills Use Certain Decision Quality Accounts Sight Photographer Photograph Appropriate Vocabulary Embarrassing Compelled I Still Believe

Author:Robert Adams

“I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture that’s not well organized upside down, it won’t work.”

Ifs Wells Stills I Can Turns Interesting Quality Down And Photographer Photograph Obvious Instance Abstract Organized Upside Down

Author:William Eggleston

“I like to photograph democratically.”

Photograph

Author:William Eggleston

“I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.”

Looks Wanted Forever Complexes Photograph

Author:Thomas Struth

“Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to think of your ear or one of your eyes or elbow, also familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.”

Ifs Thinking Years Whole Body Eye Taken Pieces Feet Ears Photograph Your Body Familiar Aliens Who We Are Isolated Think Of You Elbows

Author:Paul Auster

“I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.”

Believe Use I Believe Photograph Believe You Can

Author:Todd Hido

“To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often unconsciously. Otherwise the photographs are merely about an idea or a concept-that stuff eventually falls flat for me-there must be something more, some emotional hook for it to really work for me.”

Ideas Fall Stuff Interest Consciousness Mystery Emotional Photography Conscious Concepts Photograph Flats Hook Effectiveness Grappling Flatness

Author:Todd Hido

“A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.”

Persons Shows Shadow Bigger Photograph Backgrounds Instant

Author:Tomas Transtromer

“Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity.”

Eye Faces Values Causes Enemy Photograph Reputation Your Face Glances Scarcity

Author:Michael Bassey

“My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of accepting, while I can be even more complex in the photographs and people can usually accept them within the framework of their own limitations or lack of limitations – there is no dictionary meaning… they can look up for the photographic image and allow it to confuse them.”

People Writing Looks I Can Differences Accepting Complexes Photograph Limitation Look Up Framework Dictionary

Author:W. Eugene Smith

“A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about photography is the moment that you can't anticipate: you have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected.”

Moments Lying Ready Photography Photograph Impression Welcome Unexpected Fleeting Subjective Anticipate

Author:Martine Franck

“I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.”

Knows Enough Dad My Family Army Photograph Decent Funeral Episodes God Knows

Author:Matt Roper

“Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaningness. If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.”

People Ifs Knows World Want Looks Mean Enough Use Care Common Vision Know How Alive Achieve Photography Photograph Worthless If You Care Pictorial

Author:Paul Strand

“The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life, but it also comes from the mind and the heart of the artist. The photograph is his vision of the world and expresses, however subtly, his values and convictions.”

World Mind Heart Artist Values Decision Vision Flow Photograph Conviction Controlled Clicks Shutters

Author:Paul Strand

“The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the reader’s eye, this will be misunderstood by most of that minority which does not wholly ignore it. In the interests, however, of the history and future of photography, that risk seems irrelevant, and this flat statement necessary.”

Doe Seems Eye Interest Risk Reader Photography Importance Independent Photographer Photograph Statements Minorities Flats Irrelevant Misunderstood

Author:Walker Evans

“Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.”

Criticism Photograph Consumers Hypocrisy Tourists

Author:Martin Parr

“I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.”

People Knows Cameras Photograph Who I Am Funeral

Author:Martin Parr

“I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.”

Thinking Individual Groups Photograph

Author:Martin Parr

“I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like the people who commission those photographs with cruel arrows to go on the covers of the celebrity magazines. The photographs show botched plastic surgery, raging eczema, weight gain and horrible clothes for maximum schadenfreude.”

People Shows Worry Goes On Clothes Gains Weight Photograph Caring Rage Horrible Magazines Plastic Surgery Maximum Arrows Plastic Surgery Schadenfreude Eczema

Author:Peter York

“No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.”

Giving Garden Photograph Smell Crunch Crunch Time Japanese Gardens

Author:J. Carter Brown

“I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.”

People Age Hate Effects Honest I Hate Photograph Tricks Being Honest Telling The Truth

Book:August Sander:

Source: August Sander:

“The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.”

Mind Left Memories Scene Conscious Photograph Smell Conscious Mind

Book:The Gardening Year

Source: The Gardening Year

“Practice the mechanics of making photographs until it becomes second nature.”

Practice Photography Photograph Mechanic

Author:Fred Picker

“When a person looks at a photograph you've taken, they will always think of themselves, their own life experience. They will relate your photograph to their memories. That interplay is where a picture comes alive and grows into something. They function like invitations.”

Thinking Looks Persons Grows Memories Taken Alive Photography Function Photograph Relate Life Experience Invitations

Author:Jason Fulford

“The eyes sparked a lot of things for me, it could be somebody remembering something they had witnessed or heard about, or it could be the person in the photograph that was experiencing a tragedy or it could also be the spectator looking on from a safe distance.”

Persons Eye Remember Heard Safe Tragedy Distance Photograph Spectators

Author:Alex Prager

“Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to just speak with. It's language.”

World Speak Language Memories This World Daughter Photograph My Daughter

Author:Alec Soth

“What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.”

Ifs Lasts Photograph Painter Landscape Call Me Canvas

Author:Agnes Denes

“The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I didn't want to be alone making the pictures.”

People Want Truth Is Photograph Wants To Be Alone

Author:Alec Soth

“The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability of the eye and by the borrowed light from the intense projector bulb, he can achieve those relationships in brightness that will make us dutifully admire the wonderful autumn tints he photographed on his latest trip. As soon as we look at a print of these photographs by day, the light seems to go out of them. It is one of the miracles of art that the same does not happen there.”

“To enter Europe, you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being booked on charges of soliciting sheep.”

Looks Like You Europe Photograph Sheep Passports

Book:Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

“It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see - this, in my opinion, is the advantage that impressionism possesses over all the other things; it is not banal, and one seeks after a deeper resemblance than the photograph.”

Ifs Different Jobs Easy Opinion Advantage Paint Rate Photograph Oneself Deeper Resemblance Impressionism

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.”

Ifs Reality Essentials Reflection Mirrors Aim Photograph Caught Drawing Colour Accurate Realism

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”

Gun Murder Cameras Photograph Appropriate Frightened Subliminal

Author:Susan Sontag

“With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!”

Two War Together Film Bits Painting Photography Shots Photographer Photograph Iraq Newspapers Experts Chemicals Editing Iraq War Crumbling

Author:David Hockney

“The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.”

Objects Photography Consequence Photograph

Author:Dorothea Lange

“But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and in terms of the quality of the photograph it's a great photograph, but in terms of imagery it's unacceptable, and I like that contradiction.”

Facts Light Term Quality Taken Photography Photographer Photograph Expensive Contradiction Imagery

Author:Damien Hirst

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