#photo

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. ↗

— Dorothea Lange

#altering #holding #instant #life #out

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. ↗

— Walker Evans

#creativity #photography #art

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

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul. ↗

— Mary Ellen Mark

#after #direct #doing #honest #i

Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love. ↗

— Louis Faurer

#louis-faurer #photographers #photography #art

I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways. ↗

— Duane Michals

#face #great #i #i think #know

My career was 100% different from what I intended to do. I thought I'd photograph nature and landscapes but I wound up photographing the changing of the times. ↗

— Charles Moore

#changing #different #i #intended #landscapes

Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#another #career #finally #found #i

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated. ↗

— August Sander

#illuminated #photography #shadows

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk. ↗

— Edward Weston

#composition #consulting #going #gravity #laws