“For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.” FactsPhotographyShotsBoring Author:Martin Parr
“With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!” TwoWarTogetherFilmBitsPaintingPhotographyShotsPhotographerPhotographIraqNewspapersExpertsChemicalsEditingIraq WarCrumbling Author:David Hockney
“I think people just see cinematography as being about photography and innovative shots and beautiful lighting. We all want our movies to look great visually, to be beguiling and enticing, but I think that what really defines a great cinematographer is one who loves story.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksStoriesBeautifulPhotographyShotsLove StoryInnovativeLightingCinematographyEnticingCinematographers Author:Seamus McGarvey
“It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I found people open and understanding of the importance and beauty of filmic storytelling. I never had to explain why Jake Bryant, my Director of Photography, and I were climbing up a ladder to get a high shot, or running ahead to get an arrival shot, or filming weeks after weeks, months after months, collecting so much material. The process was respected and honored.” PeopleMightRunningFoundEasyProcessUnderstandingSoundWeekCrazyMaterialsMonthsDirectorsConflictPhotographyShotsFemaleImportanceStorytellingFilmmakerZoneClimbingAfghanistanHonoredLaddersCollectingArrivalsJakeClimbing Up Author:Pietra Brettkelly
“All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.” WantedPainPhotographyShotsMoodParis Author:Ernst Haas
“The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone.” TwoNextChallengesGoneOne DayPhotographyShotsNext DayTwo DaysNew Challenges Author:Patrick Demarchelier
“When I was working with Robert Frank, he told me that there was absolutely no relationship between cinema and photography. I challenge that. Surely what you know as a photographer must impact how you set up your shots.” KnowsChallengesPhotographyShotsImpactPhotographerCinemaFrank Author:Ralph Gibson
“You can't teach people photography, they've got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. They can learn from looking at pictures taken by well-known people, but they don't really get intimate with the medium until they've made a few bad shots!” PeopleWayWellsMadeKnownTeachTakenPhotographyShotsBest WayMediumsIntimateWell KnownPicture Taken Author:Cecil Beaton
“Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.” IfsSpacePhotographyShotsInteriors Book:Cinema I: The Movement-Image Source: Cinema I: The Movement-Image
“I never felt in competition with anybody in war photography. You're lucky to get your ass in and out again. It's as simple as that. It's the easiest photography in the world to shoot somebody who's been shot up. It doesn't take a genius. That's easy. The only thing you need to know is your photography. Get in and if you're lucky get out. And get as close as you can get.” IfsKnowsWorldNeedsWarFeltEasySimpleGeniusLuckyPhotographyShotsCompetitionAss Author:David Douglas Duncan
“There are religions in which the representation of the world is banned as an usurpation of the power of a God, creator of all things. It is very possible that photography is a trick of the devil and each shot is a sin.” WorldSinPhotographyDevilShotsAll ThingsCreatorTricksRepresentationBannedUsurpation Author:Joan Fontcuberta
“Just someone trying to shoot in 70mm deserves the nomination, and he[Quentin Tarantino] is shooting interiors, like tight interior shots, for that matter. Obviously [Quentin] is the director and demanding the shots, but all credit for the beauty of that film [Hateful Eight] goes to the director of photography.” TryingMatterFilmDirectorsPhotographyShotsDeserveEightCreditShootingInteriorsHatefulNominationsQuentinTarantino Author:Bun B
“I had no real photography experience, thankfully. I consciously took a lot of crowd shots. I was influenced by Seattle photographer Charles Peterson, who always seemed to incorporate fans in his live band shots.” RealFansBandPhotographyShotsPhotographerCrowdsSeattle Author:Bruce Pavitt
“It's shot by Ben Rayner who I think is very talented at doing portrait photography as well as fashion photography. His images never look like a model. You know, it doesn't look like a faceless model just wearing whatever. There's always personality that comes through. That was quite important for me to capture.” ThinkingKnowsWellsLooksImportantFashionPersonalityPhotographyModelsShotsCapturePortraitsFacelessFashion PhotographyPortrait Photography Author:Alexa Chung
“I actually had some funny dialogue [ in Stardust Memories], a little piece, and we shot all day in this big ballroom. Gordon Willis was the director of photography, and at the end of the day, Gordon turned to Woody Allen and said, "We cannot accomplish all of this in this space. It's impossible." And we'd been rehearsing and trying to shoot this thing all day. So Woody said, "Okay, let's do something else." He looked at me and said, "Come back tomorrow, I'll put you in something else." And he did.” TryingLittlesSaidEndsBigsMemoriesSpacePiecesImpossibleTomorrowDirectorsPhotographyShotsOkayAccomplishDialogueThe End Of The DayWoodyStardustBallroomRehearsingAnd At The End Of The Day Author:Brent Spiner
“I never shot on sets, but if I was traveling somewhere or on location, I would always have my camera, and I'd always be - it's that kind of fly on the wall approach to photography, though. I don't engage the subject. I like to sneak around, skulk about in the dark.” IfsKindDarkSubjectsWallApproachPhotographyShotsCamerasLocationSneak Author:Jessica Lange
“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.” ThinkingNeedsFirstsMeanLightArtistAnimalRecordsMountainPhotographyShotsCamerasPhotographerPhotographLandscape Author:Galen Rowell
“It is the photographer's decision at the two levels of seeing the picture - when it is shot and when it is chosen and printed that determines his personal style.” TwoDecisionLevelsSeeingStylePhotographyShotsPhotographerDetermineChosenPrintedPersonal Style Author:Alexey Brodovitch