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A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.
Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.
The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?
Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.
If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light.
Half of all species on Earth could disappear by the end of the century because of our collective impact.
I do not believe that the average person wants a 'map' of his face - I believe he wants to be idealized.
Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.
Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.
I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.
The subject gives you the best idea of how to make a photograph. So I just wait for something to happen.
I do not use the word 'genius' lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no such thing.
Either you capture the mystery of things or you reveal the mystery. Everything else is just information.
A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless
I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photographer.
It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.
I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.
For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.
You do things for yourself, and you do things for other people, and you hope that these things coincide.
Persuasiveness takes finesse; it takes an understanding of human psychology. And intention is everything.
I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.
One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.
I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
Becoming a professional artist takes talent and perseverance, even more so when the field is photography.
I never photograph sunsets and I never photograph moonrises. I'm not interested in what things look like.
Sometimes you don't know why you're doing something. You're intuitively following, to see where it leads.
I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.
All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.
I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.
What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'
Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.
Digital held no romance for me at all. I hated it. I miss my big cameras. The working process, I miss it.
For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.
Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.
Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.
If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.
I don't know if I can articulate how I feel. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would make it here.
Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man.
I want to do the most subversive thing I couldn't do as a child: I want to take back the planet's future.
Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.
My black-and-white work is more of a celebration and the color work became more of a critique of society.
I love to photograph people in their own environment. It offers clues to what's important in their lives.
The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.
It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.
To freeze time, to hold on to youth, this business makes no sense. It's always time that wins in the end.
There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school.