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“With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.”

Giving Trying Reality Natural Fiction Photography Prejudice Twists

Author:Martin Parr

“I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.”

Knows Trying Doe Waiting Walks Secret Known Watches Know How Streets Walking Approach Photography Photographer Corners Heat Unexpected Around The Corner

Author:Alex Webb

“Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for creativity; be intensely yourself. Don't try to be outstanding; don't try to be a success;don't try to do pictures for others to look at- just please yourself.”

Trying Looks Simple Creativity Please Photography Photographer Outstanding Prescriptions Please Yourself

Book:A Point of View

Source: A Point of View

“I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's nothing much interesting to tell about me; what's interesting is the person I'm photographing, and that's what I try to show. [...] I think each photographer has a point of view and a way of looking at the world... that has to do with your subject matter and how you choose to present it. What's interesting is letting people tell you about themselves in the picture.”

People Thinking World Way Trying Persons Matter Shows Interesting Views Subjects Photography Photographer Photograph Point Of View You Choose Subject Matter

Author:Mary Ellen Mark

“The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.”

Trying Facts Jobs Views Photography Photographer Intuition Catalogues Unconcerned

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to be emotional. Little else interests me in photography.”

Want Trying Littles Care Interest Simple Emotional Photography Photographer I Care

Author:Elliott Erwitt

“If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself.”

Ifs Way Trying Firsts Believe Happens Lying Force I Believe Subjects Photography Method Photographer

Book:Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

Source: Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

“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

“Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.”

“Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art.. that it was considered a craft.. has trapped almost every serious photographer.”

Trying Children Art Facts Serious Prove Photography Photographer Crafts Trapped Prove It

Author:Richard Avedon

“Every day I am aware of the flow and constant change; perhaps I am at the edge of discovering what more our bodies might be able to teach about the spirit of life. At least, I am always exploring and trying to understand our relationship to the whole universe.”

Trying Whole Body Might Able Spirit Universe Teach Photography Flow Constant Edges Discovering Our Relationship Exploring Spirit Of Life

Author:Ruth Bernhard

“Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.”

Trying Photography Empty Photographer

Author:Jay Maisel