Photographer Quotes

I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.
Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say the photographs burn on the page . After some years, I began to understand that what they wanted of me was simply a nice, sweet, clean-looking image of a lovely young woman.
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.
Photographing a cake can be art.
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.
All of my work comes out of a deep concern for human expansion into the landscape.
As artists, we can help, visually and intellectually, to make people understand that, at some point, we have to accept that it is our collective impact that is putting the whole planet in jeopardy.
Berlin has a uniquely haunting nature, symbolic of a problematic system that was created to oppress and divide a nation.
Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.
Good governance takes behavior that is negative or not helpful to the greater good of society, whether it's polluting behaviour, plastics, or whatever, and taxes the behaviour.
Humans can really reveal themselves through what they choose to see as the most important or meaningful detail in an image.
I came out of a blue-collar town, a GM town, and my father worked at GM, so I was very familiar with that kind of industry and that also informed my work.
I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.
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