In this post, you will find great Photography Quotes from famous people, such as Giles Duley, Brooklyn Beckham, David Furnish, Annie Leibovitz, William Albert Allard. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
I studied photography in high school, and straight away, I knew it was something I was interested in.
In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.
In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.
I was not getting work, even after auditioning for films. So I started working in a studio as a photographer; I assisted a cinematographer for two ads. I was thinking that I will get into photography or cinematography or assist someone. But then the ‘Dangal’ offer came, and I was busy with the auditions.
Photography must be integrated with the story.
A film carries six fine arts – it consists of architecture, painting, music, writing or literature, photography and performance. It’s a conjecture of all these things and yet based on literature.
I’ve always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it’s photography or movie-making.
Everybody’s got to do something… I’d been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors‘ children and so on.
My use of the medium – photography – is in some ways traditional.
Why do we use flash at all? Because photography is not the same as eyesight. We can see in low-light situations where cameras, dependent upon a physical process to record visual information, are half blind.
I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of what is happening, not just the outside, but the inside out.
I came to photography by accident.
I came from a background of photography so I look at details and visuals, and I see things in pictures or signs.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
I never went to school for photography and started when I was pretty young. I was somewhere around 12 or 13. I started photographing as a hobby and carried that hobby through high school and university.
Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can’t obtain it, the more we want it.
I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background.
Since high school, I’ve always been super into photography. I event went to Valley College for photography.
Photography is not a fine art at all.
It’s actually one of the only things that I do that I don’t get frustrated over. Everything else I do – racing, golf, video games – those things I want to win at. With photography, I think the camera wins every time.
I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
I draw cinematic and photography and art references from everywhere. That’s part of my job. So yes, you watch films, you see artists for palettes, photographers for mood.
I can’t watch a movie where the actors are great and the photography sucks.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
I became obsessed with the storytelling of photography and going on little adventures.
My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.
I love creating. I had been really into photography when I was in college.
Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
When ‘Humsafar’ did well, every single person associated with it shined. Its DoP [Director of Photography], Shehzad Kashmiri, went on to become a huge director. So, a good and successful project just blesses everybody.
I don’t think there’s any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
I’ve grown up around people who love photography, and I think from being photographed for so long, I always wanted to understand how it worked, and I’ve been fortunate enough to be photographed by some really wonderful photographers, and so I learnt a lot from them, and I always ask them questions.
Painting, drawing – I’m really into photography, I’ve done it since high school.
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
The boy I was crazy about was super into photography, so I weaseled my way into AP Photo to impress him and spend more time with him. He never liked me back, but I ended up spending most my senior year in the darkroom – it became a sort of safe haven for me.
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can’t really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.
When you think about it, media’s the intersection of content and technology – it’s all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.
Biking and photography are a perfect combination for me.
I always saw photography as a way to get to film.
While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students.
For a period of time, I carried cameras with me wherever I went, and then I realized that my interest in photography was turning toward the conceptual. So I wasn’t carrying around cameras shooting stuff, I was developing concepts about what I wanted to shoot. And then I’d get the camera angle and do the job.
When I was a kid, I loved photography, and I loved makeup.
Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it’s not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.
When I was in the 12th standard itself, I decided to join the Adyar Film Institute and study photography. I specifically chose photography because I see photography as an applied science. There is an artistic element also in it. If you perfect your scientific element, you can attain certain quality.
Photography is a very important part of my life.
Contrast is what makes photography interesting.
Any time you talk about the look of the film, it’s not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.
I don’t story board. I do something else, which is, I block it. We then train to the blocking. In other words, when everybody’s training, they’re actually training a lot of the moves that we are definitely going to use, and then, I do a lot of photography of that, and that becomes where the cameras go.
I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.
I don’t think I ever really felt comfortable with photography as my sole medium. But it wasn’t really until I became a mother – I really credit that to opening me up artistically, I think because it was such an empowering birth for me – it gave me the confidence to explore different modes of expression.
Because it’s free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives – something we take for granted.
I’m just a regular guy. I have two kids, I do photography, I pay my mortgage – I just happened to be on a TV show.
Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy – which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man.
Photography helps people to see.
I consider myself very lucky. I’m known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.
Fashion photography should say something about the stability of a certain time you live in or what kind of women you like. The most interesting thing is not what they’re wearing but who they are.
All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.
Flash photography can be horrible. In the hands of an expert who knows how to bounce all that searing bright light in the right direction, it may make an impossible picture workable.
Once the amateur‘s naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
I’m really interested in photography, like every other human being.
I prefer black and white and portrait photography. I like old, you know, interesting faces, so I think black and white brings out the contrast.
Maybe I’ll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.
I always had the feeling, even when I started, that my photography was meant to be archival in nature. Sort of like wine, I guess – they get better with age.
I’m not against digital photography. It’s great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that’s fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don’t really want to change, and I still love film.
I’ve always been super into photography and the visuals that support my music.
I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.
People who are new to photography always pull their subjects directly into the sun, which is the most unflattering light in the world.
Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
In my photography, I always lean towards the underprivileged because that’s where I came from. When I went to the wars, I attempted to go and stand by those who were being trodden on. By that, I mean people like the Palestinians. When I go to India, I see really the poorest people, and I tend to be drawn to them.
The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.
I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I’ll paint my kids. And I’ll occasionally do some photography.
I love photography – I fell in love with photography, I think, because it was my own thing, it wasn’t something I needed other people’s permission to do. So, it was really freeing for me actually to be able to not be a famous person and just to take pictures.
Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.
I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.
Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.
With photography, you’ve captured a moment time – it’s that moment only – and in painting, you play with it; you manipulate how time is presented. It’s about fantasy and illusion and the creation of desire.
There are some elements of digital photography that I don’t really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.
All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.
Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.
A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I’m quite happy doing what I’m doing.
I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.
Photography, sculpture, and painting were wielded as cultural weapons over the course of generations to substantiate the idea that black people were inherently subordinate beings; they were used to make slavery acceptable and to make black subjugation more palatable.
I realized that one of the differences between news photography and dance photography was that the former has to tell a specific story, whereas all a dance photograph had to be was visually interesting.
I’ve always thought photography was a bit of an adventure, so to come home with the film, develop it, then look at the results has more of a sense of excitement.
Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
I don’t need the money I generate from photography to support myself.
I’d love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.
I’ve been working with photography for many years.
With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn’t been available in the past.
The most important part of fashion photography, for me, is not the models; it’s not the clothes. It’s that you are responsible for defining what a woman today is. That, I think, is my job.
I’ve always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.
Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it’s too much.
Every part of me is a surfer. I love surfing, and I love the waves that I surf. So that’s the thing that I get excited about most: What kind of waves am I going to be able to surf? Am I going to be surfing alone, or will we be surfing waves that no one’s surfed before? Second to that is photography.
I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.
I’m not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.
I’ve got a great collection of photography.
Photography has always been about capturing light.
I did painting before I did photography.
The digital camera takes photographs in practically no light: it will dig out the least bit of light available. I was amazed to see the results of photographs that I wouldn’t take ordinarily. That’s the advantage of digital photography.
Ive been in photography for over 20 years now, and I dont think people commission me because of my name. At some point, the commissions would have dried up if I didnt do what I do well.
With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
Photography is about finding things. And painting is different – it’s about making something.
People criticized me for my photography. They said it’s not art.
For example, Michael Mann’s film Collateral – there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.
With photography, I always think that it’s not good enough.
Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I’m not sure.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model.
I started out on photography accidentally. A policeman came to a stop at the end of my street, and a guy knifed him at the end of my street. That’s how I became a photographer. I photographed the gangs that I went to school with.
By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would, but we’re both operating in the same reality. A face painted by Picasso occupies the same reality as a portrait by Stieglitz.
Increasingly, the work I’m doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I’m trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.
Once you make decisions, you can’t go back, but in photography, that process can continue. With film, you have to eliminate all the possibilities and make the one possibility work the best for you, so you have to become very creative with the direction you’ve chosen.
I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn’t help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice.
Music, photography, media, film – it’s all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.
Germany led the world in photography and film: ‘The Cabinet of Dr Caligari’ and ‘Metropolis‘ are works that, to this day, film buffs revere.
I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, ‘the ability to conceive failure as progress.’
Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.
There are two things that I really like to do. One is I like to watch horror films a lot. The other hobby is photography.
I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father‘s support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
I went to art school, wanting to be a painter and then I got into photography. Then it was movies, and I liked the images. One of the things that interested me in film was that I was communicating in images. That was something I did intuitively and could not even talk about until I started having to do interviews.
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
I love photography. I love the imagery. I love what I do.
As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography – digital photography – to post photos on my website on a daily basis.
The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.
Many people misunderstand me – I’m quite happy to be called a photographer. All of a sudden, the art world has caught up with photography, and they are trying to hijack us.
Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.
Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.
I love to play the guitar. I also love photography and fashion.
I came up in photography, and Dust Bowl-era photography is a lot of the reason that I got behind the camera in the first place.
To me, Celine is unrivaled, and Hedi Slimane has such a multifaceted talent – from clothing design to photography. He creates this rare, incredible, and desirable world through his vision. I’m always inspired by his work.
The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it’s an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography.
I also paint, draw and I’m into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You’re presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they’re going to ‘get’ what you’re doing. Some don’t, some do.
I love photography. I love rockets.
Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.
I’ve been taking photographs since I was a teenager, and fashion has taught me a lot more about photography. It’s definitely inspired me.
The way that light hits objects in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them, is really the story of photography.
You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
Truthfully, I don’t really think of myself as a photographer. I don’t have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who’s spent their life devoted to photography.
Even when political reporting is not reduced to personality, political photography is. An article might offer depth and complexity, but is illustrated with a photo of one of the 10 politicians whose picture must be attached to every news story.
When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.
I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism – objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.
I would say, if I had any hobbies, I love photography. I love taking photographs.
Of course, I won’t be abandoning photography, because it is my life.
A movie is painting, it’s photography, it’s literature – because you have to have the screenplay – it’s music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it’s a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.
I cannot draw to save my life, and I’m not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my career – in theater, in dance, costume designers, set designers, and I have a lot of artist friends and I do photography, and I think it’s kind of in my life.
Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.
Digital photography makes you a better photographer.
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it’s good to capture people when they are themselves.
I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.
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.
There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who’ve only had museum shows but couldn’t survive for five seconds in the real world of photography. But I’ve done absolutely everything.
I wanted to be a director of photography for a while, because I’m fascinated by what they do. You’re made to look good by them and you can learn so much from talking to them.
One advantage of photography is that it’s visual and can transcend language.
Photography can be a powerful instrument for change, and photojournalists can tell stories that make a difference.
I want to really study and learn about fashion, and kind of discipline for a few years, really start to study, and then probably start my photography career. I feel like that’d be really good for me – to disappear for a few years.
Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn’t interest me.
All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.
Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art.
Create an inspiration board before your trip! If you’re like me and love photography, food, and great experiences, chances are you have a Pinterest board filled with travel inspo.
There’s something really magical about trying to see things in new ways that go beyond, in some sense, the biological human experience. Light-field photography, too, goes beyond the human experience because our eyes work like conventional cameras.
I would like to do all kinds of things: photography and art and designing; I want to help do charity things for animals and things like that.
I understood the craft of photography when done by an artist is art.
‘Woman on the Plaza,’ with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs – an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography.
I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification – and photography can provide me with that – but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.
I love being on film sets even if I’m not acting in the film, and I’m fascinated by the work of the director of photography.
I’ve been working almost 20 years, and I think I’ve worked with maybe one black director of photography in that time. Maybe two women directors or DPs. Maybe. And I’ve done a lot of TV. That’s a lot of people I’ve worked with.
When it comes to wildlife photography, you need to have luck and patience.
Drones ply the liminal space between the physical and the digital – pilots fly them, but aren’t in them. They are versatile and fascinating objects – the things they can do range from the mundane (aerial photography) to the spectacular – killing people, for example.
Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.
I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.
Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.
I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.
My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it’s been very well published in the U.K.
I’m very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.
I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.
Madonna is her own Hollywood studio – a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.
I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people’s lives – something they know nothing about – and drawing great inferences into it.
My wife herself had an upbringing where she wasn’t allowed to pursue what she wanted to do because of her parents. She wanted to go into photography and journalism, but because classes ran so late, she had to be home at a certain time. We don’t want that for our daughter.
Videos are more like photography. It’s not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.
Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It’s wholly my own expressions.
I played in bands very very young. I painted; I did photography, all kinds of things.
I would love to study photography.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
How the visual world appears is important to me. I’m always aware of the light. I’m always aware of what I would call the ‘deep composition.’ Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it’s an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
We need to incorporate fashion into every element and institution, whether it be through designer-lecture series, photography exhibitions, or collaborative efforts between artists and designers.
War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can’t miss it.
If I had to start over, I’d pursue photography – probably to the exclusion of acting.
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
I love Instagram and photography.
If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around open source, gave back to the community through education, and inspired me to explore photography.
My story with film is kind of different because I started with photography because my father was a photo buff. He had all sort of cameras, and I grew up with that.
I’m really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation – I was used to the old 35mm cameras.
I just don’t like to do photography for money.
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.
Computer photography won’t be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.
The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.
I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I’m photographing.
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
When I started, art photography, like that of Andreas Gursky, and Thomas Struth, didn’t exist.
We’re not going the photography route. I think there is a real distinction between photos and images, and Flickr is for photos, and Instagram is for photos. You wouldn’t put a filter on a meme; you’d put a filter on top of a photo that came from your camera.
Light field photography unleashes the power of the light, to forever change how everyone takes and experiences pictures.
With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There’s no formal way to show them.
I’ve always been interested in photography. I remember when I was about 14, I spent an entire summer selling lottery tickets in some little booth so I could make enough money to buy an Olympus camera.
Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.
In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.
I love football, but I’m also very passionate about photography and film.
When I first started ‘Humans of New York,’ I was writing short stories. There were about 50 of them. And, you know, they were a great part of the site, but the photography just started growing so fast that I didn’t have time to make them anymore.
I had become obsessed with the control-freak aspect of photography and with the rising importance of the image in our social media age it ended up working.
When you first start photographing a show or being into photography, you might think it’s cool to see people with their phones, like, ‘It’s so novel; everyone cares about this moment so much,’ but then it becomes… trite, y’know, and shallow. I think the best moments of my life have been spent without phones.
Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.
Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.
I always liked photography in film – I studied photography growing up. I like the medium of film; I like physically holding 35-mm film. I like the way it looks, the quality when it’s projected. I like the way it frames real life.
Black and white means photography to me. It’s much easier to take a good color photograph, but you can get more drama into a black and white one.
Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention – I’m like the Madonna of photography.
My photography changed from being more documentary-like to arranging things more, and that came into being partly because I started doing music videos, and I incorporated some things from the music videos into my photography again, by arranging things more.
I never read about photography.
Everything I do, it’s a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It’s something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.
I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I’ve ever done. It’s a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That’s the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I’m documenting the personal history and relationship I have with photography.
I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.
I take a lot of pride in my photography.
I like to get rid of things; I don’t collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.
The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
My photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which I’ve done my whole life. I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set.
My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened, elements of the photo are diminished. There is no sense of truth when you’re looking at the painting or the photo or that moment when the photo was first taken.
Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.
The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it’s formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.
Photography of any living being, according to Taliban rule, was illegal. So when I went to Afghanistan, immediately I was worried about photographing people. But it was what I wanted: to show what life was like under the Taliban, specifically for women.
It’s the rejection that is hard. It’s not the interviewing that’s hard. It’s not the photography that’s hard. It’s, you know, approaching people all day long and having a good portion of those people reject you and some of them be rude.
Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me.
When I started working in film, I loved photography, I loved the image, I loved telling the story within a frame, but as I started playing around with film and video, it was like, ‘Oh my god.’ You just have so much more to play with.
As in any person’s life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down’s syndrome; through my photography, I have witnessed all manner of human degradation. But there have also been very happy moments.
So, I’m always around video games but I’ve always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don’t know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that’s always what’s held my interest about them.
You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.
Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there’s always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
My son does a little photography, but he’s not involved the way I was.
Photography is an accident.
Photography has always been capable of manipulation.
TV-makers usually don’t know much about photography.
My main camera is a Nikon D3. I use a French camera from the 1800s for wet plate photography, I use a Hasselblad sometimes. But to me the camera really doesn’t matter that much. I don’t have a preference for film or digital.
