Quotes About Photography

I love my cameras. I love contact sheets. I love the visceral thing of film and I'm not positive that I can replicate my lighting digitally. My assistants tell me I can, but, just stubborn I guess.

I love the Instamatic application on my I phone, it takes the coolest photos.

I love to write and do photography, as a cathartic experience.

And I love shooting football.

I love photography. I like to write. I like coaching. I've made jewelry. I'm very creative.

I'm not going to stop going to the supermarket just because the paparazzi follow me. I love to cook and a cook needs her ingredients!

If I had a camera, ' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.

Rachel showed Ulani how to work the camera. Jason explained that the device would capture and preserve the image, along with their souls.

He sought a way to preserve the past. John Hershel was one of the founders of a new form of time travel.... a means to capture light and memories. He actually coined a word for it... photography. When you think about it, photography is a form of time travel. This man is staring at us from across the centuries, a ghost preserved by light.

I look at the others seated around the campfire. Mr. and Mrs. Matsunaga are diligently reviewing the day's photos on his camera. Vivian and Sylvia lounge in their low-cut tank tops, oozing pheromones that make poor, awkward Elliot grovel for attention as usual. Are you gals chilly? Can I get your sweaters?

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

I'm trying to grow more as a journalist and understand the story I'm photographing in order to communicate it in a better way.

The attention from the fashion world is something that I didn't expect. I've shot with Bruce Weber and met Karl Lagerfeld. Having that kind of attention is really exciting.

Mostly, people want to take pictures sometimes of me, or they'll say, 'Hey.' That's been kinda cool.

I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes.

The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition.

In high school, I was head of the lab. I dumped a whole five-gallon bucket of D-76 on my head once. It ruined all my clothes.

In Bosnia, there are no 35mm cameras. There are no film labs.

The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true, only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

I looked at some old photos Mom took of me and Dad for some photography project or other and tried to see if he listened to me back then, if we were close. But how can you tell? Just because people smile for photos doesn't mean they're happy.

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....

Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.

When I looked at life through the camera, I felt like I could finally see it.