Quotes About Photography

I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.

I'm just impressed when someone can capture all the crazy beauty of the light that is all around us. It's amazing to me. I don't consider myself a photographer, but I really want to get into it.

I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.

Pictures... are also opinions... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what he loves and hates and pities and is proud of.

I don't like taking a sly picture on the side. I like the direct approach. I want to be as honest to myself and the subject as possible. And I'm depending on their humanness to come through.

Every fashion photographer is completely different; the fact that they are so different is what makes it fun. You don't want to get bored.

Where you get people who want to take a picture of you or take a picture of them with you.

As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.

When I photograph someone, I want to shoot the subject and get them out of my studio so I can play with the photos and do all the stuff I want.

One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.

After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.

If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.

Winston, I don't know what I want, but I want you to go out and get it. When I see it, I'll know if it's what I thought I wanted. (Quoting a photography client.)

Besides," Shane said "I want to see Monica's face when she catches sight of the two of you. Kodak moment.

You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.

The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.

The photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just create sensation instead of deeper understanding.

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

IN THE DARKROOM

you ever thought that you are not getting enough out of your digital camera, you are probably right. Many owners of new digital cameras are unaware of what their cameras are capable of doing and it's not really their fault. The fact is that all of these new-fangled cameras hit the market with a glut of expressions being used that baffled the consumer who was hungry to try out new technology. I did three years at photographic college in the early seventies and the difference between the