Quotes About Photography

I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared.

Too bad there wasn't a Valencia filter to smooth out memories.

Slender, dark-haired, bearded Mathew Brady spoke to his subjects from behind the large, tripod-mounted box of his camera. He was a dapper gentleman

Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background, the clothing. I haven't changed at all.

Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt.

I don't really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially professionally, on the requirements. But my carry-around camera is a Leica.

I don't really resent being on the red carpet as much as I do having to deal with the paparazzi.

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

In the early days of picture-taking, the exposure shutter had to stay open for a long time, so you had to stay really still.

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

As a little girl, I was always shy, but in front of the camera I wasn't.

I am a shy person who is not very okay with the camera.

As a child, people were always trying to photograph and film me because it's a way for a shy person to find themselves.

I always feel safe with a woman photographer. I feel that no matter how they interpret something, they understand all sides of it because they are women, and women are complex creatures.

My skin's not a normal sight. When a photographer says, 'I don't know what it is, but that's just not it...' I know. They like the different colours of my skin. They're not getting them with a particular outfit.

I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

How do you photograph a gadget in a new, and not boring, way? You have to get away from people sitting in front of a computer. You have to get a look at the digital signature.

Whether you're walking the catwalk or whether you're in front of the camera, there's no such thing as a signature pose or signature look or even a signature walk.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

I started my modelling career by sending my pictures to American Apparel and eventually meeting my friend Petra Collins, who started shooting me for magazines around New York. I ended up signing a modelling contract with Wilhelmina Models a couple of years later.

I was always very silly and never took myself seriously. When my father had the camera out, I'd be up close and annoying. My father would keep saying, 'Move back! Move back!'

I like silly photos of me, looking stupid.