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“I’m not an artist. I’ve been struggling against that word all my life. The American photographers all want to be called artists. I’m a photographer and I stand by it.”
“If you want to make good photographs, a camera has to second nature to you. Devoting too much attention to technical decisions can interfere with your creative process.” -Robert Farber
“Changing the images that have been washed on us for hundreds of years is about telling us who we are, our position in the world and our value, You Will
“A career high was when I did a cover for W Magazines July issue with Steven Meisel. So few girls shoot with Meisel in their career, and a lot of
“Atop 550-foot Suribachi Yama, the volcano at the southwest tip of Iwo Jima, Marines of the Second Battalion, 28th Regiment, Fifth Division, hoist the Stars and Stripes, signaling the capture
“No one asked me to take close-ups of the bodies, but that’s what I did. I had to get very close, so close I could smell the fishy smell of
“These photographs would never please the architects, who want blueprints, but I wanted to interpret ancient buildings and ancient sites, and glamorize them, just as I had done with beautiful
“It seems to me that women have a bigger chance at success in photography than men … Women are quicker and more adaptable than men. And I think they have
“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.” –Berenice Abbott Berenice Abbott & sculpture Berenice Abbott was born in Springfield, OH. In her
“If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to
“It was like a merry-go-round in my head, they looked absolutely astonishing … My whole life changed in a couple of minutes. All I wanted was to be with them
“‘All you need,’ David Seymour who is also known as Chim, once said as a noted photographer orated on the psychology behind one of his pictures, ‘is a little bit
“When I was just starting out, I met Cartier-Bresson. He wasn’t young in age but, in his mind, he was the youngest person I’d ever met. He told me it
“All photographs — not only those that are so-called ‘documentary’ … can be fortified by words.” -Dorothea Lange On Photography has already profiled Dorothea Lange and her photography. This special
“I did have a very advanced grandmother, my mother’s mother, who wanted to buy me a camera. My parents wouldn’t let her. Eventually, she won, and I got a camera
“I learned to fly just for this project, what I love to do as a photographer is to show people things that they haven’t really seen before. And these desert
Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject. –Victor Skrebneski Chicago’s photographer He became interested in photography when he found a camera in a park. Seven-year
“A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for my eyes only, and they are no good.
“Well, I don’t think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.”
“Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph.” –Andre Kertesz Europe It was 1912. André Kertész bought his first camera. He was 18 years old and working
“Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbs and surprises us with its strangeness. It liberates forces within us which are dominated by our reason during the daytime.”
