Quotes About Photography

I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.

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.

My mother taught me to wash my hair as little as possible, and to rinse it with Coke before a shoot for a sexy, tousled look.

The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

The special connection to reality, "with which all photography is endowed," according to Rosalind Krauss, does not quite apply. It does and does not apply. Krauss likens photography to fingerprints. To the rings that cold glasses leave on tables. A photograph, she writes, is closer to a death mask or the tracks of a gull on a beach than it is to a painting or sculpture. It's the residue of things we see, rather than a reconstruction of things we see.

Al inventarse el cine las nubes paradas en las fotografías comenzaron a andar.

My dad, a pretty able woodworker, made me that bed. The smile on that kid's face, the wood slat, the look in his eyes: that photo reminds me that I won the parent lottery.

By the time I got someone to take my head shot, I'd been acting for nine years!

Photographing a cake can be art.

My abs were my bread and butter in the U.K. - the calendars, the photoshoots, and all that came with it.

I don't know if the camera likes me, but I do like the camera.

If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.

I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.

I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.

Any nude is a something you setup in front of the camera.

Audrey Hepburn's face was made for the camera.

I love being in front of the camera.

I can't hold a camera anymore.

I was a loser, a bad kid, I wasn't really into anything, and then someone gave me a camera and I found that this was the thing I wanted to do.

Most makeup campaigns are not in black and white.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

I can't remember exactly how old I was when my parents gave me my first camera, but it was a Canon, and I was certainly far too young to have such a good camera.

I shoot with a Canon 5D Mark III.

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.