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“Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's Bazaar and at several agencies as a consultant, young photographers would bring me their portfolios and all the prints would be in the same standard proportions, either for the Leica or the Rolleiflex. Many times, by limiting themselves in this way, they missed the true potentialities of their photographs.”

“The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation.”

Real Country Might Mother Values Father Boys Failing Possibility Taught Return Photography Photograph Uniforms Consolation Departure Real Value

Author:Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.

“All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.”

Way May Different Pain Remember Forget Records Painting Photography Opposites Photograph Painter Different Things Capturing A Moment Photography

Author:John Berger

“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...”

Feels Expression Photography Photographer Photograph Inspirational Photography Great Photography Landscape Photography Film Photography Photography And Film Photography Love

Author:Ansel Adams

“If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.”

Ifs Want Mean Running Water Rocks Photography Photograph Life Means

Author:Minor White

“We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.”

Mind Heart Ideas Photography Cameras Photograph

Author:Arnold Newman

“The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.”

Photography Photograph

Author:Margaret Atwood

“I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it.”

Beautiful Film Young Wish Known Lucky Hollywood Photograph Studios Realising Looking Good Be Young Old Photographs

Author:Joan Collins

“There are numerous daytime and night time photographs and videotapes of clearly non-human spacecraft from all over the world; these films and videotapes have been evaluated and deemed authentic by competent experts in optical physics and related fields.”

World Humans Has Beens Film Night Fields Photograph Physics Experts Related Ufo Competent Daytime Night Time Spacecraft

Book:Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications

Source: Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications

“Among the hundreds of so-called "UFO reports" each year, a sizable fraction of those clearly observed by reputable witnesses remain unexplained-and difficult to explain in conventional terms. There is a modicum of physical evidence, radar cases, residual effects, and some films-and photographs in support of the unexplained cases. Collectively, these cases constitute a genuine scientific mystery, badly in need of well-supported, systematic investigation.”

Needs Years Wells Film Difficult Term Cases Support Mystery Effects Evidence Photograph Genuine Witness Reports Investigation Conventional Ufo Fractions Systematic Radar Unexplained Residual

Author:Richard Hall

“As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.”

Moments Shows Pleasure Special Produce Photography Cameras Photographer Photograph Simplicity Something Special Camera And Photography Capturing A Moment Photography

Author:Sam Abell

“I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.”

Persons Wanted Lasts Remember Powerful Photograph Before Death

Book:Witkin

Source: Witkin

“Essentially what photography is is life lit up.”

Inspirational Photography Photographer Photograph Lit Inspirational Photography

Author:Sam Abell

“Cameras and lenses are simply tools to place our unique vision on film. Concentrate on equipment and you'll take technically good photographs. Concentrate on seeing the light's magic colors and your images will stir the soul.”

Soul Light Film Vision Seeing Magic Color Unique Tools Cameras Photograph Equipment Lenses Seeing The Light

Author:Jack Dykinga

“The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated”

Should Mind Heart Art Action Fields Photography Photographer Photograph Heart And Mind

Author:Frederick Sommer

“Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see.”

Knows Photography Tools Photographer Photograph Attending

Author:Emmet Gowin

“I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light. I cannot will this kind of transcendent communication into existence. I have to be open and truly present, and if I am lucky, grace descends. My best photographs are an honest collaboration, and when the viewer also connects, I feel the circle is complete.”

“Photographing these flowers has made me see the world differently. It was as if I had lifted a secret veil from a subject I had loved and appreciated my whole life. I offer these photographs with the hope that they will open a new visual or meditative universe for you as well.”

Ifs World Wells Made Whole Universe Secret Subjects Flower Offers Photograph Whole Life Visuals Veils Appreciated

Author:Joyce Tenneson

“I tried to photograph the mysterious, true and magical soul of popular Spain in all its passion, love, humor, tenderness, rage, pain, in all its truth; and the fullest and most intense moments in the lives of these characters as simple as they are irresistible, with all their inner strength, as a personal challenge that gave me strength and understanding and in which I invested all my heart.”

“Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.”

World Believe Has Beens Lying Seeing Crisis Notion Photograph

Book:Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances

Source: Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances

“I'm good at using my face as a canvas… I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are.”

Thinking Trying Persons Character Together Faces Seeing Streets Photograph Subtle Copies Canvas Noticing Observant

Author:Cindy Sherman

“I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy. Even if they know it’s fake they can believe anything. People are accustomed to being told what to believe in.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Believe Sometimes Fantasy Willing Photograph Fantastic Fake Accustomed Gullible

Author:Cindy Sherman

“I'm still very sensitive and wary of people recognising me The only thing that really annoys me is people trying to surreptitiously take a photo on their phone without asking. I feel it's cowardly and a bit pathetic. Just ask me if you really want me to have a photograph with you.”

People Ifs Want Feels Trying Stills Asks Bits Asking Photograph Phones Ask Me Sensitive Annoying Want Me Pathetic Cowardly

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.”

Stills Self Conscious Photograph Self Conscious

Author:Aidan Gillen

“My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.”

Fronts Taught Dad Photographer Photograph My Dad Ardent

Author:Sam Abell

“It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good”

Ifs Has Beens Done Courses Difficult Company Originals Blame Photograph Very Good Opera Messed Up Gershwin

Author:Cab Calloway

“If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.”

People Ifs Looks Has Beens Feelings Eye Successful Hollywood Photograph Trapped

Author:Meg Tilly

“I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft carrier [actually, it was in an anti-aircraft gun emplacement, not a carrier], which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. [Actually, that was her intention in posing for the photograph the way she did.] It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless.”

Way Trying Looks Done Hurt Regret Gun Intention Photograph Soldier Graves Horrible Planes It Hurts Hostility Aircraft Horrible Things Carrier Posing Aircraft Carriers

Author:Jane Fonda

“If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.”

Ifs Wanted Photograph Bored Aisle

Author:Matt Damon

“Has one hostage from Lebanon come back with a photograph of his abductors? Has any hostage ever come back with a photograph of his abductors smiling? I mean, this was so incredible!”

Mean Photography Incredibles Smile Photograph Hostage Lebanon

Author:Dwight Schultz

“Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If you photograph well, that's enough. I have a terrible time distinguishing one from another. Girls wear their hair the same, and are much too anorexic-looking.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Enough Today Girl Actors Acting Tvs Hair Terrible Photograph Other Girl Stardom Anorexics Terrible Times Another Girl

Author:Lauren Bacall

“History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.”

People Humans Past Born Human Beings Deals History Records Objects Died Photograph Graves Officials Drank Past And Present Posing

Author:Bill Nye

“I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.”

Thinking Stills Written Fans Letters Photograph Odd Good Life Kinder

Author:Felicity Kendal

“I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.”

Thinking Book Stories My Own Creation Photographer Photograph Short Story Essays Best Place

Author:Sam Abell

“Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?”

President Fire Photograph Hug Viral

Author:Barbara Walters

“I paint when I cannot photograph.”

Photography Paint Photograph

Author:Man Ray

“A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.”

Needs Doe Interest Subjects Cameras Photographer Photograph Determine

Author:Man Ray

“Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.”

Trying Wells Has Beens Whole Eye Cutting Limits Weight Photograph Blow Suits Endurance Keep Going Hammers Tempo Pendulums Metronomes

Book:Man Ray

Source: Man Ray

“I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it’s been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.”

Country School Used Stuff Rocks High School Photograph Folks Punk Back When Punk Rock Venues Soulful

Author:Garrett Hedlund

“I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below”

People Knows Want Wanted Death Lying Certain Dies Dying Periods Photograph Pills Life Death Like Love Balconies Wanted To Die

Author:Brigitte Bardot

“'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography.”

Firsts Figures Wall Grew Photography Grew Up Shadow Photograph Surface Snow Landscape Abstract Horizon Sunlight Ohio Stunning Hurrying

Author:Sam Abell

“The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music.”

People Ifs Important Reason Helping Eye Certain Emotion Ears Photograph

Author:Bjork

“People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.”

People Believe Art Literature Photograph

Author:Mason Cooley

“I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.”

Book Done Fall Periods Research Photograph Rough Notebook Riders Antiques Falling Off Time Periods Old Photographs

Author:Tom Berenger

“Listen Wanderlei, I will do a home invasion on you. I will cut the power to your house and the next thing you'll hear is me climbing up your stairs in a pair of night vision goggles I bought in the back of Soldier of Fortune magazine. I'll pick the lock to the master room door, take a picture of you in bed with the Nogueira brothers working on your 'jiu-jitsu'. I'll take said quote unquote photograph, post it at dorksfrombrazil.com, password - not required, username - not required. That, Wanderlei, is how you threaten someone. Dummy.”

“My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.”

Has Beens Important Memories Photograph

Author:Nan Goldin

“I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.”

Soul Photographer Photograph Likes Taking Pictures

Author:Erwin Blumenfeld

“What is important to my work is the individual picture. I photograph stories on assignment, and of course they have to be put together coherently. But what matters most is that each picture stands on its own, with its own place and feeling.”

Important Matter Stories Feelings Together Courses Individual Photograph What Matters Assignments

Author:Steve McCurry

“The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time.”

Moments Language Powerful Quality Unique Photograph Mediums Frozen Constraints Single Mom Frozen In Time

Author:Steve McCurry

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