“I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.” PeopleWantPersonsBookWholeSocialFashionPhotographyEaseProductiveBoresFashion Photography Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.” MeanBookIdeasPhotographyExcitingSeriesWorking ItEssaysCompletionTaking Pictures Author:George A Tice
“Photography is like an open book to the world.” WorldBookPhotographyPhotographOpen Book Author:Lisa Jones
“Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because I do books that are all on the same subject. That is just because the pictures have piled up on that subject. Finally I realize that I am really interested in it. The pictures make me realize that I am interested in something.” LooksBookIdeasRealizingSubjectsPhotographyDust Author:Lee Friedlander
“I collect art on a very modest scale. Most of what I have is photography because I just love it and it makes me happy and it looks good in my home. I also have a pretty big collection of art books mainly, again, on photography. A lot of photography monographs, which is great because with photography, the art itself can be reproduced quite well in book form.” WellsLooksArtBookHomeBigsFormPhotographyScalesCollectionsModestMake Me Happy Author:Chris Parnell
“Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like to have sex with or plots that are more likely to make their dates have sex with them. Reviewers are doing their day's work, cinema-goers are escaping from theirs: this leads to an inevitable difference of response. It is, though, wrong to conclude that reviewers are completely useless. Books, movies and shows may be critic-proof, but the egos and psyches of the people who make them very rarely are.” PeopleGivingMayBookShowsStarsSexDifferencesActingAudienceEgoPhotographyMassMarkResponseCriticsProofInevitableUselessGenreCinemaPlotOriginalityFamiliarityEscapingReviewersPsych Author:Mark Lawson
“[My photography teacher] gave me the Mexican Day Books of Edward Weston and just blew me away with this work. The fact that you could be this fabulous visual artist, with all this milieu of people like Diego Rivera and you could sleep with these gorgeous, amazing women, that you could live that life - that photography could deliver you that life.” PeopleBookFactsArtistSleepTeacherPhotographyVisualsFabulousGorgeousMexicanVisual ArtMilieuVisual ArtistAmazing Woman Author:Max Pam
“I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.” WritingMeanBookPlayPhotography Author:Lou Reed
“From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim Harrison's book of ghazals. I love film and photography too, so many of my songs are very image rich from those influences.” BookStoriesFilmSongRichInfluencePhotographyCrushShort StoryStandpointLove FilmsCarver Author:Greta Salpeter
“I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley Horn. I am inspired by my mentor Diana Castle, who is guiding me towards a truth and honesty in my life and work that I have always longed for.” BookBlackWhiteHonestyPhotographyTheaterInspiredBeachBlack And WhiteMentorCastlesHornsDianaTruth And HonestyGreat FoodVocalistBlack And White Photography Author:Erica Tazel
“My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to imagine alternate worlds, to writing about [Buckminster] Fuller who was the ultimate world man creating all sorts of alternate worlds and believing that they were imminent to my own work of - for instance, a project that I've been working on for some year and a half, two years now that continues to evolve has been what I call Deep Time Photography.” MenWorldWritingTryingYearsBelieveHas BeensTwoBookMy OwnHalfFictionImagineProjectsCreatingPhotographyUltimateInstanceEvolveRangeTwo YearsFablesFiction WritingWriting FictionEclecticBuckminster Fuller Author:Jonathon Keats
“One of the most recent things we did [in Perceval Press] is a reissue of a fantastic documentary about Russian prison tattoo culture by Alix Lambert called The Mark of Cain. We've done books from Twilight of Empire, that actually has forewords by Howard Zinn and Dennis Kucinich and others, to books of poetry, photography, painting - all kinds of books.” KindBookDoneCulturePaintingPhotographyMarkPressesPrisonAll KindsFantasticEmpiresTwilightTattooDocumentariesCain Author:Viggo Mortensen
“I can appreciate the idea that with e-books more people would publish, the work would be easier to disseminate, and that it could even be interactive. Being a lover of photography, I especially like the idea that you could include lots of pictures - full-color pictures - with your writing. That to me is exciting! We'll all have to stay tuned to see what develops.” PeopleWritingI CanBookIdeasWould BeColorLoversEasierPhotographyAppreciateExcitingPublishInteractive Author:Elaine Equi
“If I see a nice photography book in New York, and I don't want to have to carry that back to Japan with me, I just order it from Amazon when I come home. There's no treasure-hunting anymore. It used to be like a hunt to find Air Jordans, Max 95s, and carrying them back.” BookHomeNicePhotographyComing Home Author:Hiroshi Fujiwara
“Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.” WorldSaidBookEndsTodayOrderPhotographyPhotographEnd Of The World Book:On photography Source: On photography
“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.” PeopleArtBookMusicCreativityHeardPhotographyCamerasPhotographerPhotographInsightfulReading BooksPhotography By PhotographersInspirational PhotographyPhoto ShootsGreat PhotographyCamera And PhotographyInspiring PhotographyStreet PhotographyArt PhotographyFilm PhotographyPhotography And FilmBlack And White PhotographyPhotography And Light Author:Ansel Adams
“The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.” LooksBookPhotographyFriendlyClueJacketsGlamorous Author:Antonia Fraser
“Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.” LooksBookPhotographyCamerasHungExhibitions Author:Fay Godwin
“My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved from an intense devotion to mountains and wilderness that eventually shaped all the parts of my life and brought them together.” WorldBookTogetherDesireInterestMountainPhotographyCamerasPhotographerDevotionIntenseBurningWildernessMentorBurning Desire Author:Galen Rowell
“If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden.” IfsWorldChildrenBookSecretPhotographyPicksGardenPhotographerMy FavoriteSingle WordFavorite BookSecret Garden Author:Joyce Tenneson