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I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.
When you start photographing somebody, it's like a lustful relationship and there's all the excitement of new flesh.
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
Our post-war generation were struggling to escape the past and the burden of guilt we carried and to find a new way.
From the first time I saw them, I knew they weren't just five dirty little boys from Liverpool without an education.
If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.
Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it.
I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.
I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.
Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?
The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.
A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.
What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.
I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.
I have a strong feeling about this quick movement and changing of society and populations growing - something scary.
It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.
The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all gone.
We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.
The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.
Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.
The camera’s not a camera, really. It’s an open door we need to walk through. It’s up to us to keep moving our feet.
As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution.
I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.
You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.
... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.
When I fly British Airways, I can't help but read the free Daily Mail, which makes me glad I am leaving the country.
The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.
We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.
You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.
I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me.
What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.
I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.
Photographing plants makes you look carefully and become aware of the many solutions plants provide to human problems
When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.
The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence
It is easy to take good pictures, difficult to take very good pictures, and almost impossible to take great pictures.
For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality
I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.
Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.
Certainly, you know, you can always learn from some - from somebody else's - from some intelligence. I think. I hope.