#photo

I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#almost #always #animal #camera #first

I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#began #differences #differently #eye #film

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. ↗

— Aaron Siskind

#captured #caught #everything #feeling #film

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness. ↗

— W. Eugene Smith

#best #group #lure #our #photograph

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold. ↗

— W. Eugene Smith

#am #another #being #distance #every

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#give #help #help people #imaginary #insecure

Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#became #cases #dramatically #even #i

Contrast is what makes photography interesting. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#interesting #makes #photography

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness. ↗

— Yousuf Karsh

#darkness #develops #like #photograph

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#imagination #leave #like #photographs #something