Quotes About Photography

So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence.

I won't fool anybody by saying, 'Oh! I'm a private person.' I love people, flashbulbs and the paparazzi.

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

So when I looked at pictures and produced my calendar and edited the pictures, it wasn't just about looking at myself and thinking I'm attractive. I try to take myself out of it and get into the whole process of putting it all together.

The phenomena of taking photos and sharing them isn't new, but with Instagram being mobile, both have become cheaper and faster, producing the instant gratification of knowing how our shots look in our palms.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

I wouldn't have taken up modeling as a profession. It was more of a hobby.

I've discovered that being behind the camera is more fascinating. If I had to choose a profession today, it would have been something behind the camera.

I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

Analog is more beautiful than digital, really, but we go for comfort.

When I was working, there was no digital. We actually worked; we used Polaroids.

I don't think much about the digital world... because I am in the analog world!

A Leica camera is a camera we can keep both eyes open. You can look for the free eye that doesn't look to viewfinder and in all directions. It's like backwards - and sometimes also backwards, and you can look for the viewfinder and see your picture.

Anyone can look good if you have 500-flash bulbs exploding in your face.

I always think, 'What does this picture mean? What's the best place to put my camera? Do I have anything extra in the picture, things in the background that will distract? Am I in the basic position that will give the essential things for this picture but not too much?'

I find great lighting and a squint of the eyes makes anyone look better.

For the camera, particularly, I feel like - I think that, as human faces become older, they become more interesting.

The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.

Usually people are apprehensive about facing the camera for the first time. But for me, it was the most natural thing.

At times, I felt bad because while giving a shot, I would just forget facing the camera, or knowing the right angle.

I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.

When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.