1,962 Quotes About Photography

The iPhone actually takes pretty damn good photos—even Annie Leibovitz thinks so.

What you can do less in post is the best in post.

Every photograph posed itself this one question: Are we allowed to view what is being exposed?

Life is too short for bad photos...

Cameras didn't lie, but they could certainly mislead.

They say there is always a photographic moment to be seized where the most banal of beings yield up their secret identity. But what is interesting is their secret alterity, and rather than looking for the identity beneath the appearances, we should look for the mask beneath the identity, the figure which haunts us and diverts us from our identities -- the masked divinity which, in effect, haunts each of us for a moment, one day or another.

If you think there is nothing interesting to shoot, it is you that is not interested.

If she had a camera, she didn't need to tell stories; she could tell the truth.

But as I tucked the picture back in between some pages toward the end of the book, I realized something important, which is this: that everything that happened after I took the picture was also inside it, even though no one could see it, except me when I looked at it, and maybe also you, in the future, when you look at it, even if you didn't even see the original moment with your own eyes.