Quotes About Photography

I'm not an equipment nut. I tend to use whatever's to hand. I have several cameras, of course, but I'm not emotional about any of them.

'Penthouse' didn't seem to concentrate as much on the girls' faces, and I really wanted to see the girls' faces. It seems like through the 1980's, they almost went out of their way to obscure the girls' faces.

I am obsessed by people. Usually I try to get the girl out of the model instead of the model out of the girl.

I am obsessed with people and how to make them look their best.

It's funny - sometimes when you approach people they get freaked out but occasionally you'll find a gem who's unselfconscious in front of the camera.

It was a beautiful stretch of water, either to a fisherman or a photographer, although each would have focused his equipment on a different point. It was a barely submerged waterfall. The reef of rock was about two feet under the water, so the whole river rose into one wave, shook itself into spray, then fell back on itself and turned blue. After it recovered from the shock, it came back to see how it had fallen.

Sorprendido por el nuevo instrumento e irritado por sus poderes de reproducción inmediata, el poeta olvidaba que detrás de la lente fotográfica hay un hombre: una sensibilidad y una fantasía. Un punto de vista.

El lente es una poderosa prolongación del ojo y, sin embargo, lo que nos muestra la fotografía, una vez revelada la película, es algo que no vio el ojo o que no pudo retener la memoria. Imaginar, componer y crear son verbos colindantes. Por la composición, la fotografía es un arte.

La fotografía es un arte poético porque, al mostrarnos "esto", alude o presenta a "aquello". Comunicación continua entre lo explícito y lo implícito, lo ya visto y lo no visto. El dominio propio de la fotografía, como arte, no es distinto al de la poesía: lo impalpable y lo imaginario.

Al ritorno bisogna prendere il coraggio a due mani e fare il giro delle redazioni. Se non lo fate, per quanto siano belle le vostre foto, languiranno sugli scaffali. E' sempre difficile vendere il proprio lavoro perché ci si mette troppo ego. Abbiamo paura di essere giudicati, temiamo il rifiuto, viviamo male l'insuccesso.

Amo la fotografia serena che permette d'ispirare sogni, di coltivare speranza, per costruire un avvenire promettente. Amo difendere il futuro della nostra umanità.

Al fotografo viaggiatore, Buon cammino! Belle foto!

RötuÅŸlanm?? fotoÄŸraflar ruhlar? öldürüyor.

Qué puede haber más revelador, más gratificante, más curioso que una fotografía, que un documento que esconde la expresión del rostro de una persona?

Valley of the Shadow of Death (1855)

I don't understand people who don't like their pictures taken," said Spunky. "If you can go out in public wearing your face, then how can it bother you for somebody to take a picture of that face?

It was as if by taking a photo he could, at any moment, rein habit an older life - one where a body didn't droop, or hair didn't fall out, or a future didn't have to exist

The camera is getting smaller and smaller, ever readier to capture fleeting and secret moments whose images paralyse the associative mechanisms in the beholder.

The illiterate of the future', it has been said, 'will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph'. But must we not also count as illiterate the photographer who cannot read his own pictures? Will not the caption become the most important component of the shot?

It is another nature that speaks to the camera than to the eye: 'other' above all in the sense that a space informed by human consciousness gives way to a space informed by the unconsciousness.

Indeed, is not the homecoming amateur with his vast number of artistic snaps more contented than the hunter, returning laden with the game which is only of value to the trader.

Walker Photos For almost thirty years, photographer Diana Walker has had special access to her friend Steve Jobs. Here is a selection from her portfolio.

Portfolio of Diana Walker Photos For almost thirty years, photographer Diana Walker has had special access to her friend Steve Jobs. Here is a selection from her portfolio.

If the photographers are soul-thieves, whose soul is being stolen in a photograph of the night sky? The soul of the last one to go to bed and the soul of the first one to rise in the morning, perhaps? Photography is a black art like alchemy. It turns matter into spirit and spirit into matter. Still, there are moments when looking at a photograph of a night sky we have a hunch what the word soul means, what the word infinity encompasses.