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“What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.”

Mean Long Made Moving Choices Stuff Paper Photography Long Time Photographer Technique Mysterious Haunting Very Deep Developers

Author:Diane Arbus

“I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.”

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Author:Bruce Gilden

“Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.”

People Mean Photography Photographer Focused Mean People

Author:Chuck Close

“At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted.”

Mean Action Felt Creative Photography Decided Photographer Intuition Thoughts And Actions Rationalize Never Regret Creative Thought

Author:Wynn Bullock

“I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.”

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Author:George Lucas

“Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.”

Mean Subjects Painting Materials Photography

Author:Nigel Dennis

“To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.”

Knows Mean Photography Photographer Preconceptions Ahead Of Time

Book:Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress

Source: Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress

“If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life. I mean people are going to say, You're crazy. Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.”

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Author:Diane Arbus

“I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.”

Ifs Mean Fronts Photography Photographer Awkward Awkwardness Arranging Mean Girls Arranging Things

Author:Diane Arbus

“The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.”

“My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity; achieving it means understanding the nuances of lighting and composition, and also remembering to keep the lenses clean and the cameras steady.”

“For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.”

Ifs Mean Reality Film Bits Photography Photographer Capture

Author:Garry Winogrand

“I don't really remember the day when I stood behind my camera with Henry Kissinger on the other side. I am sure he doesn't remember it either. But this photograph is here now to prove that no amount of kindness on my part could make this photograph mean exactly what he.. or even I.. wanted it to mean. It's a reminder of the wonder and terror that is a photograph.”

Mean Wanted Remember Sides Behinds Wonder Kindness Amount Prove Photography Cameras Photograph Terror Reminders Kissinger Henry Kissinger

Author:Richard Avedon

“I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.”

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Author:Galen Rowell

“To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.”

Wells Mean Subjects Photography Photographer Strongest

Book:Edward Weston on photography

Source: Edward Weston on photography

“To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.”

Way Trying Mean Matter Form Subjects Color Photography Oneself New Ways Subject Matter Absorption

Author:Cole Weston

“Even if not a single picture is never published, they exist. And that means that we are recording the history of the human race. If that's all your doing, it still a very very worth while profession to be involved in.”

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Author:Philip Jones Griffiths

“To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.”

World Feels Mean Certain Photography Relation Photograph Oneself Appropriate

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“Images of people, cities, and landscapes from the air tell a unique story about our personal space and how we relate to one another. I've always aimed to address the bigger picture and later trends. In many ways, what a photographer does is give others a chance to step back and look at their world and gain perspective on where we stand, and what that means.”

“Everything went together perfectly, and this is what I mean by knowing. I didn't have to analyze anything. I just recognized what was in front of me. All I had to do was set up and take the picture.”

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Book:Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

Source: Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

“When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture but, instead, that it stimulates my thinking and intrigues me.”

Thinking Mean Quality Photography Surprise Appeals Loud Shock Vulgar Intrigue

Author:Alexey Brodovitch

“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

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