Quotes About Photography

But very often (too often, to my taste) I have been photographed and knew it. Now, once I feel myself observed by the lens, everything changes: I constitute myself in the process of posing. I instantaneously make another body for myself, I transform myself in advance into an image. This transformation is an active one: I feel that the Photograph creates my body or mortifies it, according to its caprice (...).

photography is an ellipse of language and a condensation of an 'ineffable' society...

Lo que la Fotografía reproduce al infinito únicamente ha tenido lugar una sola vez: la Fotografía reproduce mecánicamente lo que nunca más podrá repetirse existencialmente.

The photographic image is a message without a code.

Ultimately, Photography is subversive not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive , when it thinks.

I tried to resist the urge to reach for my camera. I tried to look, really look, as though this took an effort far greater than the movement of my eyes. You are here, I would say to myself, no part of this moment is melting into the future. You are only here and nowhere else. But I could never believe it. So I would take a photo to stop the world. So that I could keep moving

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.

Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.

Photography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light.

Photography is a demanding action sport. The light can change so quickly. I often find myself sprinting so that I can catch the perfect light falling on a photogenic subject.

Of all the various out-door recreations I have tried, when it comes to genuine, exciting sport, give me hunting with a camera.

Did you guys take enough freakin' pictures already?

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

When burdened by the feeling that there are too many photographs in the world, I ask myself if there are too many flowers.

he had said that he had used a camera obscura device to paint his pictures. It had seemed such an unlikely theory, and yet Hockney's explanation made it seem so feasible. It was all to do with angles and perspective, and when you came to look at a Vermeer, there was a definite photographic feel to the artist's work.

I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures.

I cant live and hold the camera, someone gotta take this.

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.

Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.

No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.