Quotes About Photography

Lange, who had been stricken by polio at the age of seven and walked with a painful limp, had become famous for the achingly sympathetic photographs she'd taken for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression. "Cripples know about each other," she said of her ability to capture suffering on film.

I have seen John Scalzi's pose-off picture. There are no words. There is only inarticulate whimpering.

Objects as they exist in time the clean eye and camera give us. Not falsified by seeing.

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished "shooting," my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.

I had taken the photograph from afar (distance being the basic glitch in our relationship), using my Nikon and zoom lens while hiding behind a fake marble pillar. I was hiding because if he knew I'd been secretly photographing him for all these months he would think I was immature, neurotic and obsessive. I'm not. I'm an artist. Artists are always misunderstood.(Thwonk)

Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can see. They're threatened when the camera jumps ahead of me. Todd Kovich was pissed when I brought my Nikon to the prom, but I'd missed too many transcendent shots over the years to ever take a chance of missing one again. A prom, I told him, had a boundless supply of photogenic bozos who could be counted on to do something base.

Thecla Haldane is a freelance photographer, […] flying around the world in jet aircraft covering news events and wars along with thousands male photographers. […] Her formula is, 'Conduct yourself like a lady, and you're always treated like one.' She's never 'one of the boys.

Puedes contemplar una imagen durante toda una semana y no volver a pensar en ella de nuevo. Aunque también puedes mirar una foto tan solo un segundo y recordarla toda la vida.

I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

Clic Clac. Plus personne ne bouge. Moment suspendu. Bonheur.

If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in The New York Times.

The forensic use of visual evidence started not with the introduction of modern technologies like photography, but instead with the phantasmic construction of "illegible" and "foreign" bodies.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen --- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery --- just stark me.

Leone, P., M. Poshka, and V. E. Norton Jr. Around Chautauqua Lake: 50 Years of Photographs 1875–1925. Westfield, NY: Chautauqua Region Press, 1997.

La distanza che separa il passato dal presente si misura forse dalla luce che scivola sui volti, proietta le ombre, disegna le pieghe di un vestito di una foto in bianco e nero; dalla sua chiarezza crepuscolare, qualsiasi sia l'ora in cui è stata scattata.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.