“None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.” GivingMy OwnEventsPhotographyInterpretationEditors Author:James Nachtwey
“I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach. I could not take pictures that were not connected to my own inner life.” FeelsMadeMy OwnDecisionPhotographyConnectedStomachInner Life Author:Jacob Aue Sobol
“I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.” ProblemMy OwnAcceptingPhotographyConscienceTestsGuilt Author:Martin Parr
“French Kiss - A Love Letter to Paris, is a tribute to many of the wonderful moments of romance, beauty, hope, and love that I have witnessed and been inspired by in Paris, my adopted home, over the past 40 years. I believe that photography is ultimately about sharing. I am excited to share, with the world, these moments of the heart that have touched my own, in this most beautiful city, Paris” WorldYearsBelieveHeartMomentsHomePastBeautifulRomanceI BelieveMy OwnCitiesWonderfulShareKissingPhotographyLettersAnd LoveInspiredExcitedParisTouchedAdoptedTributeOver The PastLove LetterHope And LoveBeautiful CityFrench KissWonderful Moments Author:Peter Turnley
“There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.” PeopleKnowsTryingMayLeftMy OwnPhotographyPhotographerUnsaid Author:Garry Winogrand
“Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is not a dark thing in life; it prepares you for the graceful things that happen in your life. It gives me a license to make any kind of picture I want with great courage.” ThinkingWantGivingKindHappensLife IsDarkMy OwnPhotographyGive MeMortalityThings In LifeLicenseMy Own LifeDark Things Author:Keith Carter
“If I have caught myself struggling to remember, it was, if not a pretense, at least premature, in that I only ever used photography for my own pleasure - even if I then bewailed the vanished pleasure which my pictures brought back to me.” IfsRememberUsedMy OwnPleasureStrugglePhotographyCaughtPretensePremature Author:Jeanloup Sieff
“When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don't really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.” StillsUsedArtistStuffMy OwnPhotographyUsed To Be Author:Melanie Martinez
“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
“My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.” MayIdeasEyeMy OwnPhotographyCameras Author:Edward Weston
“However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced.” FeelsMadeInterestMy OwnPhotographyConsciousStressRelationPhotographer Book:Aaron Siskind, photographer Source: Aaron Siskind, photographer
“The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.” My OwnPhotographyPhotographer Author:Aaron Siskind
“I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.” UseWantedMy OwnPhotographyResearchInstrumentsPhotographer Author:Paul Strand
“I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in my own work. Indeed, I feel the simplest approach can often be most effective. A subject placed squarely in the center of the frame, if attention is not distracted from it by fussy surroundings, has a simple dignity which makes it all the more impressive.” IfsFeelsCertainMy OwnSimpleAttentionSubjectsApproachPhotographyDignityExtraordinaryPhotographerOccasionsAngleSimplestSurroundingsImpressiveDistractedOften IsFussy Book:Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography Source: Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography
“"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?""” ThinkingWorldWantFeelsLooksDoeDreamEyeMovingAsksMy OwnSubjectsPhotographyConvictionReactionsStatementsPrintPersonal Statement Author:Ansel Adams