1,962 Quotes About Photography

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter and critic Fairfield Porter, wrote in a 1960 review of [Porter's] colour photographs: 'There is no subject and background, every corner is alive,' and this suggests what an ecological aesthetic might look like.

Photographers sometimes take pictures of each other; occasionally they take pictures of each other at work; more usually they take photographs - or versions - of each other's work. Consciously or not they are constantly in dialogue with their contemporaries and predecessors.

...photography is an ellipse of language and a condensation of an ‘ineffable’ society...

Where the world saw 'nothing'; And called it 'empty'..I saw an Ocean of Air; Filled with opportunities...!

Someone: Have you seen the sunset?Me: It's already locked in my phone!

We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal

It's a relief to be on a straightforward beach vacation. No endangered species or ancient city walls to capture.