Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.

We make, see, and love films, not digitals. To convert all of our movies, home videos, theaters, photographs and television to digital would be like telling a painter to throw away his brushes and canvas...

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

The cliché comes not in what you shoot but in how you shoot it.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.

As a war correspondent and a mother, I’ve learned to live in two different realities. It’s not always easy to make the transition from a beautiful London park filled with children to a war zone,...

Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.

We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not...

Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status updates; to feed Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.; beasts with insatiable appetites.

shock” consists less in traumatizing than in revealing what was so well hidden that the actor himself was unaware or unconscious of it.

With the daguerreotype everyone will be able to have their portrait taken—formerly it was only the prominent—and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same, so we...

When you press the shutter, time won’t see which camera, it will still get freezed in a moment… and thats the best Farewell for that moment.

Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn’t mean you are seeing correctly. Sometimes, you have you to grab the camera from the...

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

PHOTOGRAPHY is the best way, where you can SAVE your sweet PAST.

It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will change or die. It is the future they are innocent...

My photograph represents me as a person, but not as a personality. My personality is best represented by a Rorschach test.

Through photography and image I have been afforded the privilege of sharing the stories and myths of people’s lives with others. The process for me became self-revelatory. It was a process of soul-making, something all...

You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it’s like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.

Embracing the LightCollected bits of truthShimmering sparksShards of lightMergeHealingRestoringBursting BrightRisingin divine ecstatic flame.

What I am or am not wearing does not correlate with my competency as a professional, a mother, or a feminist role model. My clothes do not define me and nor does my nakedness. I...

[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain fetishism of mine: for this ‘me’ which like knowledge, which nourishes a kind...

Images last for ever, our minds don’t – capture what you can before the time runs out.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

But the very question of whether photography is or is not an art is essentially a misleading one. Although photography generates works that can be called art –it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives...

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever…it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

Two kinds of people , they spend a lot of time to take a perfect shot of God’s creation from the same distance , the first ones take it with their guns and the second...

I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.

You only have to start saying of something : ‘Ah, how beautiful ! We must photograph it !’ and you are already close to the view of the person who thinks that everything that is...

Between was and is you’ll find me—but most of the time you’ll only find me in pictures.

I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don’t leave until you have captured its essence.

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the...

The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very existence … The Photograph then becomes a bizarre (i)medium(i), a...

When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!

People say that a time machine can’t be invented, but they’ve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world’s first time machines.

Most of Arbus’s work lies within the Warhol aesthetic, that is, defines itself in relation to the twin poles of boringness and freakishness; but it doesn’t have the Warhol style. Arbus had neither Warhol’s narcissism...

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.

You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you...

To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

These are the two basic controls at the photographer’s command–position and timing–all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them

Photography is truth.

If we continually let go of the moments, we let go of who we are and we lose ourselves.

An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they?

A paparazzi is merely an extremely nosy nobody with a camera—and bills to pay.

For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in this image which produces Death while trying to preserve life. Contemporary...

The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon this possibility of freedom – and thus its significance – in a world dominated by apparatuses; to reflect upon the way in which, despite...