Quotes About Photography

I originally started GoPro with the sole purpose of helping surfers capture photos of themselves and their friends while they were surfing. I thought it was crazy that very few surfers had any photos or videos of themselves.

Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.

I am fine if videos and pictures are clicked when there are legit events and interviews. If I am sitting and having a private dinner with my son, my family or my girlfriend, then I do not want it to be filmed.

A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it makes you feel anguish and sadness and pain. Then in other moments, when you look at Jackie Kennedy walking down Fifth Avenue, that makes you feel glory and richness.

Being in Vietnam and being around a major story of the time was always a great shot of adrenaline.

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.

Looking at his dead son must have been like watching a movie where nothing moved. It was not photograph because it had duration. It had to be lived through. A photograph has none of that. This was a story without an ending. It would go on forever.

Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" — I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap.

There were photos of steel grappling hooks in the meat shed where the Watt Lake Killer had hung, gutted, flayed, and bled out his victims like slaughtered deer. Photos

You either photograph what you know, or you photograph what you want to know. But the giants photograph what they don't want to know.

What that picture represents is the first ever photographic record of a tracksuit manager in British football.

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.

The images would flash at Maria like slides in a dark room. On film they might have seemed a family.

of film. Using her body to shade her camera, she

By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world.

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.

I also am intrinsically motivated to document my loved ones, especially my close friends and family. I also have tried to cultivate a sense of appreciation for the beauty of the moment, and then I think to myself; "This is a wonderful moment. I might want to reflect on and appreciate this moment in the future". Then I take a photograph.

I've noticed that women often respond to him in this way - with an unthreatened openness. He generally likes women and you can see this in his photographs. There is nothing aggressive, prurient, or objectifying about them. Their sensuality is theirs alone. It never seems imposed.

Soames was a beautiful and striking woman, tall and lithe and, from the photographs Ive seen of her, feline. Saul's photographs of her over the years catch her in all her complex dimensions: playful, erotic, contemplative, ironic, and eccentric by turns. She was by all accounts charismatic, and was profoundly curious and interested in people. Friends, both men and women, often confided their deepest secrets to her.

Não renuncio à ideia que tenho sobre o retrato, pois é uma boa coisa lutar por isto, e mostrar às pessoas que existe nelas algo além do que um fotógrafo com sua máquina pode revelar

Goodbye, write again between times if you can. As to the money, do what you can, but remember that we must try our utmost to succeed. And I won't let that idea of painting portraits go, for it is a good thing to fight for, to show people that there is more in them than the photographer can possibly get out of them with his machine.

But always those same conventional eyes, noses, mouths - waxlike and smooth and cold. It cannot but always remain lifeless. And the painted portraits have a life of their own, coming straight from the painter's soul, which the machine cannot reach. The more one looks at photographs, the more one feels this, I think.

In primo luogo la riproduzione fotografica delle vedute paesaggistiche, la fisionomia di un paesaggio, deve servire come aiuto importantissimo alla conoscenza della terra.