Quotes About Photography

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me

Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

A photograph is usually looked at — seldom looked into.

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.

There is nothing worse then a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Being called a dance photographer makes me bristle. You might say that dance is my landscape. The root of my interest is movement or, rather, how movement can be interpreted photographically, and dance provides a perfect opportunity for this.

Sometimes, when you roll out of bed, you don't want to be photographed by the paparazzi. Usually you like to know when you're being photographed. I've learnt that, as a public figure, you have to up your game and be prepared. Ideally, you try not to roll out of bed without brushing your hair - just chuck a brush through it, make a little effort.

My job is to take the pictures, communicate a message, to bring those images to the greater public through whatever publication I'm working for. My job is really to be a messenger, and that's what I've been doing.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.