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I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.
The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.
What I strive to do through my work, is to teach compassion. You need to have a lot of it, in this day and time, and it's lacking.
Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.
The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the artwork.
What interests me is the way people regard themselves. When we are 15, we all feel as if we are beginning to become somebody else.
I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does on a canvas.
Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.
I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.
I love dogs. I absolutely adore them. When I'm teaching in Mexico, I rescue dogs from the streets and make my students adopt them.
I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.
Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see - cumulative time.
The idea that a fashion photograph could make you cry doesn't happen. And I'm proud to say that my slideshows can make people cry.
One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.
I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.
I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them.
I believe I was a codependent out of the womb and have been struggling to free myself from its vice-like grip for many, many years.
There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.
All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.
I just had the joy of taking pictures, and I never cared about my negatives. I just gave them away whenever anybody asked for them.
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.
It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.
The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.
To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.
I realized eventually that if I was really on top of what I was doing, I should be able to make photographs out of almost anything.
I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.
I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my relationship to photography.
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
Don't overthink things in front of you. I fit moves you, shoot it. If it's fun, shoot it. If you've never seen it before, shoot it.
By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world.
I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.
I think a lot of the work I've done and a lot of the work I'm going to do in the future still ties to 9/11 and the fallout from it.
I have no regrets about my work. To be a photographer was a gift of the gods. I can't imagine anything that would have been better.
Photography has become a small world with so many jealous people. You do a story and then a lot of people try to do the same thing.
Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur Rimbaud.
Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn’t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake them up.
In New York’s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers.
I was a workaholic, I had food issues, and I had body issues. I was in a lot of pain. My parents didn't recognise what was going on.
For me, the camera is like an entrance to the private lives of other people. And if you are curious like me, it is a fantastic tool.
There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.
For many years I wanted to do a film, but I never had the courage to clear my desk and say, 'OK I'll take a year off and do a film.'
Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.
Though some will try to deny it, I believe that every woman, at some time in her life, has had or will have the desire to pose nude.
I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.
In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund
Nature, never, never let's you down, it's not a cliché, nature isn't a cliché, pictures might be, but you can get tired of pictures.
Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.