Photographer Quotes
I think media has lost its way. We must recognize that the proprietors of these organizations have put on a form of censorship. Basically, they're more interested in celebrity, narcissism, rich people, good-looking people, and successful sportsmen.
Don Mccullin
British photojournalist
Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.
Richard Avedon
American photographer
I struck upon this kind of crazy idea that I was going to go to New York and stop 10,000 people on the streets and take their portrait and create kind of a photographic census of the city.
Brandon Stanton
American author
Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.
Richard Avedon
American photographer
Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.
James Nachtwey
American photojournalist
I've never been impressed by somebody who came in with a crocodile bag, you know?
Peter Lindbergh
Theologian
There is a new way with very very tiny fiber optics, which give an enormous high resolution. There are many many thousand fibers, very very close together with a very small diameter.
Lennart Nilsson
Swedish photographer
During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
French artist
People don't need to be scared. I tickle sharks. I do, when they swim by.
Michael Muller
American photographer
At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country.
Mario Testino
Peruvian fashion photographer
Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
Patrick Demarchelier
French photographer
The ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real time is something the human race has never had before. This new set of tools, often referred by the lofty term 'Big Data,' has begun to emerge as a new approach to addressing some of the biggest challenges facing our planet.
Rick Smolan
Photographer
I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad.
Martin Parr
British photographer
I'm a zero.
Bill Cunningham
American photographer
Programmers have been wandering out and shooting a shotgun into the night sky and hoping they hit something, and I end up paying $150 for channels full of nothing I want to watch.
Rick Smolan
Photographer
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
Irving Penn
American photographer
One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.
Mary Ellen Mark
American photographer
A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
Galen Rowell
Photographer
For me, every photograph is a portrait; the clothes are just a vehicle for what I want to say. You're photographing a relationship with the person you're shooting; there's an exchange, and that's what that picture is.
Peter Lindbergh
Theologian
We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now.
Linda Mccartney
American photographer
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