Quotes About Photography

No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

It had been done, the fridge had surfed, and what is more I had photographic evidence, provided I didn't screw up with the film again.

Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?

But the face I would always remember best was the one that never made the pictures. The one behind the camera.

In my what-am-I-doing-here? mood Akisha was a timely lesson. She made a point of staying positive, didn't grumble, never gossiped, and she expected the best from her students. She was also a passionate photographer, and though her talk was always upbeat, her photographs were a record of all she had seen.

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.

The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.

Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs

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

However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of my works beg the question of is it real or not?

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

Some people's photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that's fine. But that's not why I do them. I'm a gun for hire.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.