Quotes About Photography

O mais importante nunca se pode fotografar (...). O que fica sempre, o que nos envolve a alma é o que não pode ser capturado pela moldura. (...) "Este silêncio tão vasto, como o posso fotografar?

A photo album of his parents

Personally, I didn't take a single photograph while I was there, but that's not all that unusual for me. I suppose my aversion to snapping pictures may have something to do with shaky hands and blurry results, but there's another reason: The act of lifting up the camera and positioning it between me and the object of my interest separates me from the experience.

Wildlife photographer, photojournalist, war correspondent, paparazzi, even portraitist, but life laughs at the plans we make, and the dreams and ambitions of youth quickly morph into the embarrassing memories of adulthood.

Unlike normal photographs, every small fragment of a piece of holographic film contains all the information recorded in the whole.

La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité.

He had died in silence as he had lived,' wrote expedition photographer Mario Fantin, 'almost tip-toeing out of life in order not to disturb the people in the tent next to him.'1

You put your camera around your neck in the morning along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." – Dorothea Lange ('Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life' by Milton Meltzer)

When I played the "I don't feel comfortable" card, he knew it was over. "I don't feel comfortable" is the classic manipulative girl get-my-way line. It's right up there with "I don't feel entirely safe." Was it fair? Nope. Was it cool? Absolutely not. But it also wasn't fair or cool for him to have brought three dozen size-zero gowns to my photo shoot.

Just as long as it pays enough to give me the option to go back to work part-time if I decide to pursue my hobby professionally, which is photographing cool manicures for Instagram.

Note: if you want to seem like a super-creepy person, be an adult, by yourself, taking photos of children and people on a beach.

This photo is more significant because it is a rare time where my head looks normal size. I have enormous head, so it is important to me to have a few flattering, head-minimizing photos.

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.

Esas fotos nuestras, con la película levantada y unos bordes dentados como los de los sellos, son también testimonios: nuestro cuerpo se interpuso certeramente, en algún momento, entre el sol y la lente de la cámara de fotos, dejando en la película una sombra como la que despliega la luna, durante un eclipse, sobre el disco solar.

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I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see a photo opportunity.

don't want to make photographs. The way you described it with Capa's work is exactly right: I want to make windows.

La belleza, como la justicia, se nos escurre entre los dedos. Fotografiamos una puesta de sol, pero todo lo que conseguimos es el recuerdo del momento, no el instante en sí.

There they are, held like flies in the amber of that moment—click goes the camera and on goes life; the minutes, the days, the years, the decades, taking them further and further from that happiness and promise of youth, from the hopes Aunt Sadie must have had for them, and from the dreams they dreamed for themselves. I often think there is nothing quite so poignantly sad as old family groups.

I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.

loves it, in fact, as much as anything she has ever done. After the brain deadening years of child-rearing, she feels like she is waking up, feels as if her mind is stirring after a long sleep, spluttering and juddering into motion. She enjoys the hours spent in the red light of the darkroom too, thrills (more than she

A story isn't like a smoothly running engine, but is rather like a photograph. Photos can never be a perfect representation of what an eye looking at the same subject will see, partially due to the limitations of lenses and emulsions, but largely due to the conscious choice of the photographer.