Quotes About Photography

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

I enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots.

She realized that the photograph had caused his reaction. It came to her almost as a revelation. Think of it: a photographer presses a button. A few hours later and half a world away, some dots of ink on a news print showed what he had seen-and had the power to touch peoples emotions, perhaps to change their way of thinking.

So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them.

Cautious as a camera-man engaged in shooting a family of fourteen lions

Good. Now you don't look dead." Always a plus. "Say cheese, Coma Girl."

I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.

Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.

Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.

Too many times nowadays the picture is expected to tell the whole story, when in truth there's only one picture in a hundred thousand that can stand alone as a piece of communication.

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.

When photography was invented, it was thought to be an equivalent to truth. It was truth with a capital T.

Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it.

I want pictures like these. The kind that can capture a moment, make it real, make it last. I need pictures that do more than reflect. I need pictures that are truth.

Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.

I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't.

I'm very old fashioned. I still believe in the image and the pictorial quality of the image. It seems that I'm still busy with a truth in photography.

Photographs provided a tangible reality to men who were far from home, fearful and tired; they were posed proofs of success, souvenirs to send to sweethearts and loved ones, or simply ways of remembering, of grasping a moment in a swift changing and uncertain world.

Photographs provided a tangible reality to men who were far from home, fearful and tired; they were posed proofs of success, souvenirs to send to sweethearts and loved ones, or simply ways of remembering, of grasping a moment in a swiftly changing and uncertain world. His