1,962 Quotes About Photography

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

There's no more important mission, because it's folly to think that we can doom wildlife to oblivion and believe humans will be just fine. That's a world I hope to never lay eyes upon.

The time of the photograph is [always] after. This imprecision accommodates the numerous successions, the end upon seismic end, in a time without time, un[re]countable: still. In this, it is a perfect crime, “l’anéantissement anéanti, la fin… privée d’elle-même.

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

My pictures are about making people realize we've got to protect those who can't speak for themselves.

You put your camera around your neck in the morning along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” – Dorothea Lange ('Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life' by Milton Meltzer)

God creates the beauty. Through my camera, I am a witness.

I also have to add that if Rembrandt had been given a camera then that guys understanding of light and form would have blown the rest of us shooters into a black hole of despair.

Η νεκρική, η οπτασιακή φύση του μυστικού της φωτογράφησης (να γιατί οι ασπρόμαυρες φωτογραφίες σαγηνεύουν περισσότερο απ' ό,τι οι έγχρωμες) είναι η ίδια υπεύθυνη για τον παλιό, χαρακτηριστικό φόβο των ανθρώπων μπροστά στο φακό [...] ο φακός με σημαδεύει ξέροντας ότι είμαι ήδη νεκρός.