#photo

To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. ↗

— Edward Weston

#photography #art

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#enigma #photography #art

I've heard attacks were made on coalition forces because of those. I apologize to the families of those who lost loved ones or were injured because of the photos. ↗

— Lynndie England

#attacks #because #coalition #coalition forces #families

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it. ↗

— Robert Frank

#becomes #everything #glamor #how #kind

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished. ↗

— Robert Frank

#advance #anticipate #been #composed #feel

We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#breaches #card #cards #carefully #changes

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for? ↗

— Marla Maples

#doing #go #i #look #old

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#come #domination #impose #instrument #love

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#i #nobody #photograph #really #see

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations. ↗

— Bill Brandt

#depends #effect #enlarging #essential #final