One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
As fantastic as it is to have 'Vogue' and 'Vanity Fair' as places to work, I don't often get to shoot the kind of things I like to photograph in the way I like to photograph.
While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.
The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith.
A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.
I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.
When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.
Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
I used to go out wearing any old rubbish, no make-up, nothing, but since mobile phones, that has all had to stop. People do come up to you so often and say hello, or want a photograph, and I just can't do it anymore in what I used to wear. They don't want to be seen hanging off a rabid old granny any more than I do.
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
With a documentary, you can cut away, you can do jump cuts, cut to a photograph at any point to bridge two scenes.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes.
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
If you are truly successful in capturing the pulse of life, then you can speak of a good photograph.
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
If they want a photograph, then just take it.
My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen to the radio at night, close our eyes and see movies far more beautiful than you can photograph.
Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.
For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.
Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is.
To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
I have never seen a picture of my mother. My mother's family never owned a photograph of her, which tells you everything you need to know about where I'm from and what the world was like for the people who gave me life.
One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.
Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.