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The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.
The photographer’s vision convinces us to the degree that the photographer hides his hand.
You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one.
I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.
You know, as photographers, we do pictures, and people either like them or they hate them.
Photography, to me, is the dewdrop that reflects my inner and outer worlds simultaneously.
Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.
I can't have just anybody assisting me, I need somebody who I can really communicate with.
Let's begin to cover the main street of America... just to see what the heck occurs on it.
I think that nowadays there are more images in the world than world to be in the pictures.
In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.
The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject.
Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.
I've often contemplated some kind of tummy tuck surgery, but I know this is not the answer.
I've learnt that if you can't get rid of something, you have to find a way to live with it.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.
It's so easy for people to stick a label on you, and then that taints everything you touch.
Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.
It seems insane-so violent and loud. It's audacious that you would even think such a thing.
Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery.
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.
Our perspective is what holds the key to whether the solution is ordinary or extraordinary.
Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.
To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression.
Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new
I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.
Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.
When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.
No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.
I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.
Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes.
Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.
To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.
We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.
I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself
It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.
Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If it's really good, it's another form of life.
Giving a politician access to your wallet is like giving a dog access to your refrigerator.
I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.
Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
Only when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired do any of us do something different.
Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.