I see myself through others eyes and I am made anew.

The (i)studium(i) is ultimately always coded, the (i)punctum is not)…

The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then,...

The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

Among the things she said: ‘Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist… such as personality, patience, and intuition. The sitter ought to be the predominating factor in a successful...

You’re most likely spending more on catering and photography than the dress, but it’s a very emotional purchase.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our...

Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.

The best way to get America back to work, and reduce our deficit, is hire all the photographers in the country, position them on street corners, and have them take pictures of all the license...

Uhh… people?

A great photographer show off his talent & awards on facebook.An amateur photographer show off his work and skill on facebook.A foolgrapher show off his camera and how he holds it, on facebook.

Pointing and clicking like Annie Leibovitz

Actually, it’s nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I’m only choosing the perspective.

Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. ‘The necessary condition for an image is sight,’Janouch told Kafka; and...

We all perform. It’s what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It’s a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we’d like to be.–PERFORMANCE

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness

All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless...

A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they’ll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won’t do a thing for you if you don’t have anything in your...

The key is to integrate our art into our life, not the other way around.

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

With gift giving, if it’s the thought that counts, then a picture of a Mercedes is just as good as an actual Mercedes. With my new camera, I can’t wait to show you how much...

Collect moments rather than things. Moments get away.

Pictures put you in front of a reality that most of the times you don’t want to see, don’t want to know about, don’t want to get involved.

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social...

I create other worlds, magical never-never lands where the camera is my weapon and the battles I fight are with the elements. i stretch the laws of the mind and displace people from their realities...

Well, uh… well, have fun watching your home movies then,” Mandy finished, but she didn’t have the slightest idea what he was talking about.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

What’s required of me in the field is to feel,’ Stirton says with emphasis. ‘And trying to take that feeling and put it in a form that communicates a particular set of emotions or circumstances...

I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography – therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

Photography is a Passion Not a Hobby!

John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

It’s a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate with the past, should exist only in memories glimpsed through the fog of...

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

Don’t we all know that art is dangerous. You play it – then you live it.

It is by studium that I am interested in so many photographs, whether I receive them as political testimony or enjoy them as good historical scenes: for it is culturally (this connotation is present in...

I have a print – you can buy them at the Victoria and Albert Museum – of a photograph of the village street of Thetford, taken in 1868, in which William Smith is not. The...

Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

Is a picture really worth a thousand words? What thousand words? A thousand words from a lunatic, or a thousand words from Nietzsche? Actually, Nietzsche was a lunatic, but you see my point. What about...

I took some naked pictures the other day. I don’t feel shamed, but I do feel remorse over having to steal the whole camera to get the pictures.

With my wedding photography business, I want repeat customers. So hooray for divorce! That’s why I take lots of pictures—of cheating spouses.

Art is unpredictable.

The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.

Taking a picture is like giving a piece of your soul away. You allow other people to see the world through your eyes.

The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of...