Quotes About Photography

Take a picture not a trophy This is how real men shoot animals

Man tried to imitate God by drawing; then we invented the photo.

I'm a photographer and my pictures are used in advertising campaigns. But I don't do advertising. Do you hear me? I take pictures. I'm not an advertising agency. I'm not an advertising man.

Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun, and women feel less as if they're expected to be in a relationship.

A passport picture is a photo of a man that he can laugh at without realizing that it looks exactly the way his friends see him.

Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!

The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.

The front door to springtime is a photographer's best friend.

The lessons I took away from that trip always stayed with me. Give Steve the benefit of the doubt. If he takes off running after an emu, get the camera ready, because he'll come back with one. If he says he'll find a specific spot in a desolate landscape that he last visited more than twenty years before, don't question him. Just ask him when he thinks we'll get there.

If you concentrate, there is something that emanates from you, and that's what the great photographer photographs. Diana Vreeland says, "There is no beauty without emotion." I think that is the responsibility of a model.

Hace algunos años, de pronto me encontré en las barriadas argelinas de París tomando fotografías para un reportaje que estaba preparando. Poco faltó para que me lincharan. Tiempo después entendí que en Occidente nos vemos unos a otros como a países que hubiéramos conquistado. Hacemos lo que nos da la gana con el rostro y el cuerpo de las personas que tenemos alrededor. Colonizamos sus destinos. Les robamos sus sufrimientos y nos aprovechamos de su historia.

Having contact sheets for all sorts of episodes in your life seemed to me intriguing and desirable. So much of my own history is beclouded by time, but a few sharp rays, in the form of pictures, falling upon a given day would resuscitate whole contexts. And from this archipelago of moments, scenes, episodes, you could see the larger tectonic movements of your life forming and unforming. You would be reminded of who you are. Or at least of who you were.

The less the camera is able to capture what you're seeing in a scene, the more editing it needs.

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

There's something magical still about it when I get in a darkroom, and you've shot a roll of film and you develop it and you look at your negatives, and there's, like, imagery there. That always stuns me.

I just had the joy of taking pictures, and I never cared about my negatives. I just gave them away whenever anybody asked for them.

There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.

For one year, I was Keith Mitchell Coogan on my headshots. The next year, I was just Keith Coogan. And I have gone by that ever since, maybe 1984 or 1985. That is my mother's maiden name, and it was out of reverence for my grandfather.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

I didn't know who Avedon was. I was 18 years old. I dropped out of high school in the 10th grade. I had no idea.

Okavango Delta in Botswana to shots of the aurora borealis in Lapland. There were photographs taken as she'd hiked the Inca Trail, others from the Skeleton Coast in Namibia, still more among the ruins of Timbuktu. Twelve years ago, she'd learned to scuba dive and had spent ten days documenting marine life in Raja Ampat; four years ago, she'd hiked to the famous Paro Taktsang, or Tiger's Nest

Nobody should have children just because it made the photo library on the computer more interesting.