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If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.
Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after.
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.
I don't go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that's reason enough to photograph it.
What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.
We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.
I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.
It wasn't until I became a mother that I started to refer to myself as an artist as opposed to a fine art photographer.
We don't have only two eyes; we have hundreds of wonderful eyes, because there are hundreds of wonderful photographers!
A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar.
I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.
Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.
If you have a cool personality, the photographer will want to work with you because he or she will have more fun on set.
I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.
The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.
People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.
I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.
The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time.
I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.
Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.
I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
My dad's an amazing photographer, and he loves a Sunday market. So the house was full of all the stuff he'd buy, and frame.
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.
I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.
I moved to New York and went to art school at Parsons School of Design. Became a photographer. Became a creative consultant.
There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.
In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all.
I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.
And I'm a pretty avid photographer, I've been into photography for years now, so I try to spend some of my free time with that.
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'
It's quite difficult to write about photography as a photographer. A lot of better photographers than me have declined to do it.
A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?
We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.
My dad's a photographer. So I suppose he named me Ansel just in case I would take over the family business. I guess I failed him.
There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.
The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.
You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it.
I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world.
I believe every photographer is influenced by their sexual preference in a greater or lesser way, and it certainly has affected me.