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“Research is fundamental; finding as much as you can and never giving up. I love the research. It is my "precise time". Not just for interviews but of footage, photographs never seen before. It is a painstaking process that satisfies me. The research never ends. I was still researching while I was promoting the Diana Vreeland book. I love reading books and going to original sources.”

“My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.”

People Thinking Kind Mean Different Shows Beautiful Photograph Different Kinds

Author:Nan Goldin

“I never, never photograph someone getting high to sell clothes. I was called, at some point, the person responsible for "heroin chic". I didn't have anything to do with "heroin chic".”

Persons Clothes Responsible Sells Photograph Heroin Getting High Chic

Author:Nan Goldin

“The idea that a fashion photograph could make you cry doesn't happen. And I'm proud to say that my slideshows can make people cry.”

People Ideas Happens Fashion Cry Proud Photograph Make You Cry

Author:Nan Goldin

“When I started photographing my boyfriend of years ago, Brian, I realised I had no right to photograph other people having sex if I wasn't prepared to take them of myself too”

People Ifs Years Sex Years Ago Prepared Photograph Realised Brian My Boyfriend Having Sex

Author:Nan Goldin

“I walk in the park every day, and when people come and ask for a photograph, I say, "Oh, my God!" It means they recognize that I have been doing something right and they want to have a photograph taken with me.”

People Want Mean Has Beens Asks Walks Taken Photograph Parks Walks In The Park

Author:Carolina Herrera

“I like to add personal touches to my decorating style, including photographs and nostalgic items that remind me of family and home.”

Home Style Add Including Photograph Items Nostalgic Decorating Personal Touch

Author:Karlie Kloss

“I was dyslexic as a child and it took me years to get passed that. I read a lot but it was hard and that didn't go away until my early-to-mid-twenties. So really what I was looking at were the photographs and the illustrations in magazines.”

Years Children Hard Twenties Photograph Magazines Going Away Illustration Dyslexic

Author:Robert Benton

“After the war, photography came alive, in part because everybody started to use the 35mm camera, and worked on the street instead of in a studio, and that made an enormous difference in not only how photographs looked, but what they were about.”

Made War Use Differences Alive Streets Photography Cameras Photograph Studios Enormous

Author:Robert Benton

“I never really made any money and it certainly cost me more to take photographs than I got for them.”

Made Cost Photograph

Author:Dennis Hopper

“I couldn't get a job acting all the time and there were down periods where I could take photographs or paint. I got into a lot of trouble when I was young, from making two films with James Dean, watching him work and then him dying and thinking I could turn down work. There was a big difference, he was a star and I wasn't. So I got in a lot of trouble and was essentially banned from Hollywood.”

Thinking Two Bigs Jobs Film Young Turns Stars Differences Acting Trouble Dying Periods Hollywood Paint Photograph Dean Banned

Author:Dennis Hopper

“I went back to photography in the 1990s. But from the 60s to the 90s I didn't really take any photographs at all, unfortunately. During that period I lived in France, I lived in England, I lived all over the place in different cities. I didn't take any photographs and because I felt I had really accomplished everything that I wanted to in photography during the period between 61 and 67.”

Different Wanted Felt Cities Periods Photography England Photograph France Accomplished

Author:Dennis Hopper

“I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually live a cultural life.”

Art Possibility Painting Involved Photograph Contracts Bros Warner Bros

Author:Dennis Hopper

“If you're going to photograph skateboarders you can't run after them, you've got to learn how to skate. So at about 50 years old I learned how to skate, and skate fast enough to keep up with them and hold my camera.”

Ifs Years Enough Running Cameras Photograph Skates Skateboarder

Author:Larry Clark

“It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.”

Needs Art Imagination Vision Learning Photography Ordinary Extraordinary Photographer Photograph Invention Painter Photography By Photographers Inspirational Photography Great Photography Street Photography Art Photography Good Photography

Author:David Bailey

“Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.”

People Photography Photograph Inhibitions Rockers

Author:David Bailey

“I was giving a lecture and I said, that's enough about The Photographic Life, meaning my biography, now let's talk about the life of a photograph. And in that one instant I got the title for a potential next book.”

Giving Said Book Enough Next Photograph Titles Instant Meaning Of Life Biographies Lectures Life Means My Biography

Author:Sam Abell

“There are a lot of ways to talk about the life of a photograph. You can talk about the afterlife of a photograph, and in the end I talk about that, with the Richard Prince picture. But mainly, what I dedicated the book to being about was how photographs begin their life, and where they begin it. And they begin it with the photographer's imagination and instinct and experience.”

Way Book Ends Imagination Instinct Photographer Photograph Dedicated Afterlife

Author:Sam Abell

“It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it always begins with the writer. With the kernel of an idea, or a character, or an idea or a theme, or even an outcome. But for documentary photographers, photographs begin at that intersection of the real world and the imaginative inner world.”

World Writing May Littles Ideas Real Character Bits Talking Little Bit Photographer Photograph Outcomes Theme Real World Documentaries Imaginative Inner World Intersections Kernel

Author:Sam Abell

“First of all, I appropriate photographs.In presenting the Richard Prince photograph I tried to be as neutral as I could be. I put down the fact of it. I wanted it to be the same thing he wanted it to be, an open ended invitation to think about authorship, and who owns a created work. So I pair it with my appropriated picture.”

Thinking Firsts Facts Wanted Photograph Appropriate Pairs Invitations Presenting Authorship

Author:Sam Abell

“A very big part of the life of a photograph is the afterlife.”

Bigs Photograph Afterlife

Author:Sam Abell

“I was a consultant for Kodak back in the late 80's. There were engineers there who told me that in the future, most photographs would be taken on telephones. They weren't able to do anything with that. They were engineers, not management.”

Would Be Able Taken Late Management Photograph Engineers Telephones Consultants Kodak

Author:Sam Abell

“[In the late 80's] that's the first time I heard about that astonishing idea [that most photographs would be taken on telephones]. And now I've been watching the tsunami of images.”

Firsts Ideas Would Be Taken Heard Late First Time Photograph Telephones Astonishing Tsunami

Author:Sam Abell

“The class that I teach is called "The Life of a Photograph." It takes up the question, of the billion photographs that were taken today, how many will have a life, and why? So the new reality has made the question more pertinent, not less pertinent.”

Made Reality Today Class Teach Taken Photograph Billions Pertinent

Author:Sam Abell

“Yes, there are billions more photographers, and billions more photographs every day, but who's building up a point of view? Who's photographing with intention, and whose body of work will sustain itself and survive?”

Body Views Building Intention Photographer Photograph Point Of View Billions Building Up

Author:Sam Abell

“That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better."”

Class Students Photograph Workshops

Author:Sam Abell

“There are things that I teach, about building photographs, and that's why people come to my workshops. When people come to the workshops, they're consumed with seeking the subject, and I teach seeking the setting.”

People Teach Subjects Building Photograph Seeking Setting Settings Consumed Workshops

Author:Sam Abell

“Richard Prince's most famous photograph was made by me.”

Made Photograph

Author:Sam Abell

“I will just say, appropriation is an intellectual idea until it happens to you. It's a philosophy, and it's got its own intellectual framework. Then there's what happens when it's your photograph. Then it's personal, and that's all I'll say.”

Ideas Philosophy Happens Intellectual Photograph Framework Appropriation

Author:Sam Abell

“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.”

“The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre.”

Beautiful Notion Photograph Strikes Bizarre Sexually Playboy

Author:Hugh Hefner

“Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production.”

Courses Photograph Productions

Author:Patricia Piccinini

“You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.”

Kind Children Use Photograph Invisible Lenses

Author:David Bailey

“Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.”

Ifs Knows Want Hard Play Character Film Actors Depends Photograph Mood Chekhov

Author:David Bailey

“I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.”

Ifs Light Waiting Tree Rocks Prepared Photograph

Author:David Bailey

“With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with.”

Knows Lost Photograph Collaborators

Author:Patti Smith

“I wasn't familiar with Patti [Smith ]much at all. When I was asked to photograph her, my wife said, "Oh my God, Patti Smith!" So I looked at some Robert Mapplethorpe books and I recognized those pictures.”

Said Book Wife Photograph My Wife Familiar

Author:Steven Sebring

“I didn't do well in high school, but I took photography, and I loved being able to capture moments. It led to more and more photography, and fashion was the angle into photography for me. It was incredible to see photographs by Irving Penn or Helmut Newton. I was really intrigued by that, and that's what led me to New York City.”

Wells Moments Able School Cities Fashion New York Photography High School Incredibles Photograph Capture New York City Angle Newton Intrigued

Author:Steven Sebring

“Fashion has also been a great outlet, and I'd like to do more fashion photography in the future. I also photograph a lot of artists.”

Artist Fashion Photography Photograph Outlets Fashion Photography

Author:Steven Sebring

“Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.”

Asks Speak Photograph Wave Ask Me Autographs Notice Me

Author:Quentin Crisp

“I remember when I was in the prisoner camp, I was a French prisoner. And I saw the first photograph from the concentration camps, and we discussed it with other prisoners. And our feeling was we did not only lose the war, we lost also our honor.”

Firsts War Feelings Remember Lost Loses Saws Honor Photograph Concentration Prisoner Camps Remember When Concentration Camp

Author:Manfred Rommel

“Visual renditions of war not only establish what can be seen, and the audio-track established what can be heard, but the photographs also "train" us in ways of focusing on targets, ways of regarding suffering and loss.”

Way War Suffering Loss Heard Train Photograph Track Visuals Target Audio

Author:Judith Butler

“Photographs can be forms of recruitment, ways of bringing the viewer into the military, as it were. In this way, they prepare us for war, even enlist us in war, at the level of the senses, establishing a sensate regime of war.”

Way War Form Levels Military Photograph Senses Regimes Viewers Recruitment

Author:Judith Butler

“In the age of the camera phone it's a bit weird when you're sitting having dinner in a restaurant and people think they're being very subtle taking a photo while in fact they're being very obvious. When you're in a middle of a mouthful with friends or family and people come up asking for a photograph, that's when you want to say, 'Actually, I'm going to say no; I'd like to finish my meal. This is my time.'”

People Thinking Want Facts Age Bits Middle Sitting Asking Cameras Photograph Phones Come Up Obvious Dinner Meals My Time Restaurants Subtle

Author:Hugh Bonneville

“The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.”

World Mean Seems Age Artist Energy Force Modern Objects Cameras Photograph Representing Inner World Modern Art

Book:Jackson Pollock

Source: Jackson Pollock

“I think that one of the visions that is closest to reality is the cardboard city in the subway station in Tokyo, which is based very closely on a series of documentary photographs of people living like that and of the contents of the boxes. Those are quite haunting because Tokyo homeless people reiterate the whole nature of living in Tokyo in these cardboard boxes, they're only slightly smaller than Tokyo apartments, and they have almost as many consumer goods. It's a nightmare of boxes within boxes.”

“Different assignments, different places, require different approaches. Sometimes I take minutes in a location, at other times days. There are many places that I have returned to over several years. When I photograph, I look for some sort of resonance, connection, spark of recognition.”

Years Looks Different Sometimes Minutes Approach Connections Photograph Recognition Sparks Location Different Place Assignments Resonance Different Approach

Author:Michael Kenna

“I try not to make conscious decisions about what I am looking for. I don't make elaborate preparations before I go to a location. Essentially I walk, explore, discover and photograph.”

Trying Decision Walks Conscious Photograph Preparation Location

Author:Michael Kenna

“Approaching subject matter to photograph is like meeting a person and beginning a conversation. How does one know ahead of time where that will lead, what the subject matter will be, how intimate it will become, how long the potential relationship will last? Certainly, a sense of curiosity and a willingness to be patient to allow the subject matter to reveal itself are important elements in this process.”

Knows Persons Long Doe Important Matter Lasts Process Subjects Conversation Elements Meetings Patient Curiosity Photograph Intimate Willingness Be Patient Subject Matter Ahead Of Time

Author:Michael Kenna

“For me, this is one of the advantages of not using digital, I never know when I have a good photograph! I practice doubt as a way to push myself into alternative compositions by selective focus, different speeds of exposure, and unusual perspectives.”

Knows Way Different Practice Doubt Focus Perspective Advantage Photograph Speed Alternatives Digital Unusual Composition Exposure Selective

Author:Michael Kenna

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