“When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is an art form in itself, but... my portrait is a culmination of elements... a truer image of a person than just the 'click' of a snapshot.” PeoplePersonsArtFormWonderfulPaintingElementsPhotographyPhotographWhy NotPortraitsClicksSnapshotsCulmination Author:Jamie Wyeth
“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
“No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get this medium to say what you need it to say. Because photography has a certain verisimilitude, it has gained a currency as truthful - but photographs have always been convincing lies.” NeedsJobsLyingCertainIndividualWonderfulPhotographyPhotographerPhotographMediumsTruthfulCurrencyConvincing Author:Joel Sternfeld
“I love all of these new products that are coming out, things like headphones with cute, catchy names. There is also so much going on with the marketing of fashion. And then, I still love the classic stuff, like great dresses and wonderful photography.” StillsNamesStuffWonderfulFashionProductsPhotographyDressesMarketingCuteClassicComing OutCatchyNew ProductsHeadphones Author:Stephanie Seymour
“Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with the fairy-tale world of childhood, a never-ending journey through great and small, through variations and the realm of illusions and appearances, a labyrinthine and specular place of multitudes and simulation.” ThinkingWorldWonderfulMagicJourneyChildhoodAwarenessAdventurePhotographyIllusionAdultsAppearanceTalesManageRealmsFairyFairy TaleToysMultitudesVariationNever EndingSimulationGreat Adventure Author:Luigi Ghirri
“That's one of the wonderful things about the whole process of photography - eye contact can be very revealing.” WholeEyeProcessWonderfulPhotographyContactWonderful ThingsRevealingEye Contact Author:Derek Ridgers
“I would strongly encourage anybody embarking on photography as a career to embrace and enjoy the whole process. Being a photographer can be a wonderful way to experience the world.” WorldWayWholeProcessEnjoyCareersWonderfulPhotographyEmbracePhotographerEmbarking Author:Michael Kenna
“That's one of the troubles of photography; the implication that what you have in that photograph is the way it is, and of course a year later that's not the way it is. Life moves on and the picture stays. That can be a wonderful idea to be a part of history and on the other hand, you think pictures have a life that they don't have.” ThinkingMovingWonderfulTroublePhotographyPhotograph Author:Eugene Richards
“That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.” LifeNeedsMindLostWonderfulSubjectsFinePhotographyFrame Of MindLost Yourself Author:Dorothea Lange
“Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems a ritual of patience - wonderful. They restore to us knowledge of a place we seek but lose in the rush of our search. Though to enjoy even the pictures, much less the space itself, requires that we be still longer than is our custom.” LittlesMadeStillsSeemsEnjoyLosesSpaceWonderWonderfulPhotographyCustomsRitualOpennessBlurOld Picture Author:Robert Adams