1,962 Quotes About Photography

I feel that the Photograph creates my body or mortifies it, according to its caprice (apology of this mortiferous power: certain Communards paid with their lives for their willingness or even their eagerness to pose on the barricades: defeated, they were recognized by Thiers's police and shot, almost every one).

Remember that even just watching animals has an impact. Intrusion into their living space can expose them to predation, keep them from feeding or other essential activities, or cause them to leave their young exposed to predation or the elements. No photo or viewing opportunity is worth harassing or stressing wildlife. In appreciating and watching them, we have a responsibility to protect and preserve the animals that share our state.

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 studium) that I participate in the figures, the faces, the gestures, the settings, the actions.

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

when you take a photograph, things stay still. The way that they were, is the way that they are, is the way that they will always be.

I like to think of my photography as a two-hour movie in one frame.

The rule of photography says when you can’t get focus on the subject, you don’t keep zooming in rather you zoom out. Use this when you’re stuck in life, don’t keep focusing on problems, rather take a step back and then try to solve it.

Whatever the intention or aim of the photographer, every photograph is a unique proof of identify, firmly declaring that human beings are ghosts.

There is a spectre inside every photograph.