I think the best way to put it is that newspictures are the noun and the verb; our kind of photography is the adjective and adverb. The newspicture is a single frame; ours, a subject viewed in series. The newspicture is dramatic, all subject and action. Ours shows what's back of the action.
For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography. )
Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.
Photography is something you learn to love very quickly. I know that many, many things are going to ask me to have their pictures taken and I will take them all.
At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.
It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera
Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon.
. . . nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'
One of the most amazing things that came out of 911 was all the pictures taken by amateurs, by people just going to work or coming or saw what was going on and took it. But all forms and various types of cameras, and when you look at that body of work you just see the impact of how photography is - when I taught once, I said that you have to be ready now for any event.
To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines operating at one thousand horsepower - only photography is capable of that. What those who are attached to the painterly style regard as photography's defect, the mechanical reproduction of form - is just what makes it superior to all other means of expression.
I could ramble on forever, I just love photography. It's my passion, it drives my family crazy. I live it and breathe it.
Human experience comes suspended in the sickly-sweet amniotic fluid of commercial photography. And a world normally animated by abrasive differences is blithely reduced to a single, homogeneous National Geographic way of seeing.
Photography is about being patient. I'm quiet, I watch the situation. I let things happen and photograph them when they happen; that's my approach, although trying to anticipate events at a party with lots of people is hard.
The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed that problem beginning with photography and telegraphy and the - in the 1840s. We tried to solve the problem of overcoming the limitations of space, time, and form.
This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.
The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and the landscape, and why not: Good and Evil, desire and its object: dualities we can conceive but not perceive. . . Whatever it grants to vision and whatever its manner, a photograph is always invisible: it is not it that we see.
Straight photography, following the medium, is intoxicating - trying to wrestle it into the form of a poem.
The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal of money in model fees. . . I have wanted to make the camera obsolete. . . because, in my reading about early 20th century art, I found that the most frequently used argument made in favor of abstraction was that the camera made realist painting obsolete.