Quotes About Photography

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

Well I'm not in Adams and Steichen's league. I like to think my work is art, but few galleries represent photos anymore, not like there were when those guys were hot. The mystique is gone, you know. Every Joe and Jane with a smartphone thinks they're a genius photographer.

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

Watch a good movie sometime without reference to what's happening but only with attention to how it was photographed; you'll see the change of focus—zoom in, pan out, close-up on face, fade to black, open from above—easily. You want to do that in what you write; it's one of the things that keep people's eyes on the page, though they're almost never conscious of it.

People always take pictures and ask me for autographs. That just comes with it. We all do that.

A smartphone is great for when one person is documenting another thing or another person doing something.

I had a lot of energy when I was eleven and always liked being in front of a camera.

You have to go with it and be a bit of a poser on photoshoots. You're embarrassed at first, but you just have to deal with it.

Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

If I'm out for a shoot, I provide someone else's number to my family for any emergency. Otherwise, I have a landline at home.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

I photograph anything that light falls on.

NASA Lunar Orbiter V photo, No. MR 168).

NASA Apo11o  11 and NASS Apollo 16 photo, No. 16-758).

Kirlian photographs

Galaxies of Life: The Human Aura in Acupuncture and Kirlian Photography, published in 1973.

NASA photo No. 11-37-5438.) In July, 1972, the Hasseiblad camera of Apollo 16 recorded yet another cigar-shaped object.

Photographing a cake can be art.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.

Lines don't make beautiful women less beautiful

You only have to start saying of something : 'Ah, how beautiful ! We must photograph it !' and you are already close to the view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it never existed, and therefore in order to really live you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photographable way possible, or else consider photographable every moment of your life.

The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow." - from "The Adventure of a Photographer