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The photograph suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation.
— Andy Grundberg
Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.
— Mason Cooley
I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used.
— Eliot Porter
I love to photograph the gorgeous landscapes when I travel.
— Blake Lively
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
— Paul Strand
I had the details of that photograph memorised.
— Suzanne Rindell
When you look at nature, you see a hidden mystery that gives a special flavor to the photograph.
— Abbas Kiarostami
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
— Man Ray
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
— Ansel Adams
It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.
— Marshall McLuhan
Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did.
— Hunter S. Thompson
A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
— Ansel Adams
A photograph gives us the naked truth,which has to be clothed by the imagination.
— Francis Meadow Sutcliffe
If you are truly successful in capturing the pulse of life, then you can speak of a good photograph.
— Rene Burri
The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.
— Stephen Shore
What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing ... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.
— Eve Arnold
Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color
— Tablo
I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.
— Giles Duley
The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.
— Luigi Ghirri
It's like a malicious person lifting a photograph from the developing chemicals too early, and then pronouncing the photographer incompetent.
— John Taylor Gatto
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
— Edward Weston
Science gives an exact photograph of the world, but it lacks an essential dimension of reality.
— Alija Izetbegovic
The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.
— Jim Goldberg
It's not enough that [the photograph] is beautiful. If it doesn't move my heart, it won't move anyone else's heart.
— Rinko Kawauchi
I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.
— Garry Winogrand
The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.
— Susan Sontag
Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
— Harold Feinstein
When I photograph someone, I want to shoot the subject and get them out of my studio so I can play with the photos and do all the stuff I want.
— Nikki Sixx
In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have.
— Henry Wessel Jr.
The best photographs are made by the best people.
— Morley Baer
Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.
— Nick Cave
I went through a long period when I thought my photographs were not visible - on the wall, but not visible.
— Jack Welpott
For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired.
— Greg Gorman
The photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it.
— Fred Ritchin
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
— Dorothea Lange
It was as if my eyes were a camera and I was photographing the moment, knowing that I would keep the photograph forever.
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.
— Tomas Transtromer
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
— Marshall McLuhan
Remembered what Dai Bingguo had said to me when he pulled out the photograph of his granddaughter: "This is what we're in it for." It
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality?
— Gilles Peress
Different people can photograph the same things with the same tools and create such different images.
— John Paul Caponigro
The more I photograph women, the less it is about transformation. Women are beautiful. All that really matters is enhancing that
— Mario Testino
The only connection I had left with my parents is an old photograph of the two of them on their wedding day.
— M.C.
If I'd only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn't have had to do all the thousands of others.
— Saul Leiter
Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility, and a lonely one.
— Ruth Bernhard
Levi was a black-and-white photograph in the dark. All pale skin, gray eyes, streaky hair ...
— Rainbow Rowell
The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.
— Henry Adams
Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.
— Nelson Shanks
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
— Susan Sontag
Life is a photograph too, so thank you,
for not removing yourself from the picture just yet. — Meggie Royer
for not removing yourself from the picture just yet. — Meggie Royer
The camera can photograph thought.
— Dirk Bogarde
If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
— John Berger
A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.
— Shomei Tomatsu
I have the instinctive reaction of a Western man when confronted with sublimely incomprehensible. I grab my camera and start to photograph it
— Douglas Adams
Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos.
— Mike MacDonald
When is a pilgrim like a photograph? When the blend of acids and sentiment is just right.
— Anne Carson
We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.
— Sam Abell
Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.
— Edmundo Desnoes
I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is.
— Nigel Barker
My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.
— Uta Barth
And I'd be damned if I let the first photograph of me in ten years be taken on fucking Amtrak. I mean, the light alone.
— Elizabeth Little
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
— Ansel Adams
I knew that my husband was a song that I had forgotten the words to and I was a fuzzy photograph of someone he used to love.
— Catherine Lacey
The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.
— David Burnett
My understanding of the past has been savagely undermined.
— Penelope Lively
Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.
— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.
— Andy Warhol
You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.
— Neil Postman
What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux.
— Thomas Pynchon
I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.
— David Hockney
The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
— Richard Avedon
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
— Edward Weston
I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.
— Andy Warhol
Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me
— Duane Michals
My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
— Sam Abell
It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.
— Walker Evans
The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
— Penelope Lively
'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums.
— Amy Bloom
I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".
— Keith Carter
They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.
— Jackie Cooper
Perhaps the most important people that I should photograph are the people who don't have a voice.
— Platon
The more story-appeal there is in the picture or in the photograph, the more people would look at your ad
— David Ogilvy
I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.
— Jock Sturges