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When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.
I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.
Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.
The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.
I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts.You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get the camera to see
I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.
...you don't need to be technically great, because if you have a strong philosophy people will be moved by your pictures regardless.
If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful.
People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art.
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.
Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.
In our world, love, sex, music, and dance are all integrated into one experience. Love, and the arts of music and dance go together.
My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.
Love is a funny thing, isn't it? The presence of it can bring you to save a foe, the absence of it can make you hurt your own flesh.
I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about .
Fashion has also been a great outlet, and I'd like to do more fashion photography in the future. I also photograph a lot of artists.
My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.
When you've worked as hard as I have to form your identity, the last thing you want is to blur where you end and someone else begins.
The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.
When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.
I have never understood models. I find it really hard to find beauty in that or to discover beauty because the beauty was so obvious.
'Humans of New York' did not result from a flash on inspiration. It grew from five years of experimenting, tinkering, and messing up.
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.
My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.
Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.
He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months?
I have always loved sneakers and sweaters, and I wear a lot of them. And a good t-shirt or a pair of jeans can make you feel so good.
I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what we make of them.
The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.
It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo.
...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.
I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market as it is to have a picture in a museum.
John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.
There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home.
I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the 80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.
The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence or in their early 20s.
I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.
Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.
A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.
We just grew to trust each other [with Patti Smith] more and more over the years. Most of the time I didn't even have a movie camera.
The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.
The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.
Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes.
Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.
For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.
There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.
I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.