#photo

There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent. ↗

— John Sexton

#considerable #correctly #finished #i #i do

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. ↗

— Aaron Siskind

#beliefs #believe #conditioned #expect #learn

My main camera is a Nikon D3. I use a French camera from the 1800s for wet plate photography, I use a Hasselblad sometimes. But to me the camera really doesn't matter that much. I don't have a preference for film or digital. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

#digital #film #french #i #main

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing. ↗

— Stephen Sprouse

#clothes #control #could #except #i

The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith. ↗

— Stephen Sprouse

#band #clothes #friend #hanging #i

In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened. ↗

— Robert Stack

#air #air force #because #belgian #believe

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing. ↗

— Layne Staley

#drawing #led #me #music #photography

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#artist #begins #blank #blank canvas #canvas

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#good #kind #made #perfect #photograph

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth. ↗