Quotes About Photography

When in doubt, go for a three-quarter pose at the camera. It's an angle that captures the best of the cheekbones, the chin line, and a long neck.

You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

What is most satisfying for a photographer,' he noted 'is not recognition, success and so forth. It's communication: what you say can mean something to other people, can be of certain importance. . . The photographer's task is not to prove anything about a human event. We're not advertisers; we're witnesses of the transitory.

There are two kinds of photographers, the ones who take pictures for a magazine, and the ones who gain something by taking pictures they are interested in.

The profession of photography is anti-elitist. There are very few professions where even when you are at the top, a household name, you might still be standing on a draughty street corner with your feet getting wet and cold, waiting for something to happen. At that moment you are on the same level as a homeless person, standing on a street corner, begging. In most professions, the higher up you go, the more likely you are to go around in a chauffeur-driven car.

The problem with photography is that everybody can do it. Everybody has a camera and therefore everybody feels they can give advice.

Anyone can be a photographer, even a monkey can be taught to do that, but a developer, no. It is the work of real craftsmen, exactly like an engraver, a real profession.

In the hands of a Magnum photographer, the camera is not just an objective eye, but an instrument to enlighten and inform, a stimulating force to influence opinion and sometimes to speak for those with no voice.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic.

These kids could hardly burp without some adult pointing a camera at them and telling them to do it again—as if they lived their lives twice, once in reality and the second time for the photo.

As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time.

We live in a time of the greatest precision and of maximum contrasts: photomontage offers us a means to express this. It shows ideas: photography shows us objects.

Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop