#photo

I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers. ↗

— Lauren Hutton

#book #booth #calling #constantly #dizzy

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour! ↗

— Lauren Hutton

#christian #hour #house #i #learned

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing. ↗

— Syd Barrett

#films #happy #i #lot #make

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. ↗

— John Berger

#invention #light #makes #materials #photography

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates. ↗

— Bill Brandt

#could #effect #expect #hope #lost

My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs. ↗

— David Bruce

#conversations #derived #entirely #health #knowledge

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from. ↗

— Chuck Close

#i #paint #photograph #really #somebody

My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and they're like, his hair is out of control. ↗

— Bradley Cooper

#control #emails #finds #hair #his

Anyone can take a picture of poverty; it’s easy to focus on the dirt and hurt of the poor. It’s much harder—and much more needful—to pry under that dirt and reveal the beauty and dignity of people that, but for their birth into a place and circumstance different from our own, are just like ourselves. I want my images to tell the story of those people and to move us beyond pity to justice and mercy. ↗

— David duChemin

#photography #photography-quotes #picture #poverty #beauty

I had been teaching myself photography. ↗

— Ree Drummond

#had #i #myself #photography #teaching