#photo

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts. ↗

— Walker Evans

#eye #feelings #joyous #photographer #reason

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#after #box #cooks #happens #hunters

I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#behind #bikini #bought #came #copy

I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#by the people #fascinated #i #interested #like

I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#fascinated #hawking #i #i am #just

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#everything #happened #illegal #look #photograph

One of my favorite album covers is On the Beach. Of course that was the name of a movie and I stole it for my record, but that doesn't matter. The idea for that cover came like a bolt from the blue. Gary and I traveled around getting all the pieces to put it together. We went to a junkyard in Santa Ana to get the tail fin and fender from a 1959 Cadillac, complete with taillights, and watched them cut it off a Cadillac for us, then we went to a patio supply place to get the umbrella and table. We picke up the bad polyester yellow jacket and white pants at a sleazy men's shop, where we watched a shoplifter getting caught red-handed and busted. Gary and I were stoned on some dynamite weed and stood there dumbfounded watching the bust unfold. This girl was screaming and kicking! Finally we grabbed a local LA paper to use as a prop. It had this amazing headline: Sen. Buckley Calls For Nixon to Resign. Next we took the palm tree I had taken around the world on the Tonight's the Night tour. We then placed all of these pieces carefully in the sand at Santa Monica beach. Then we shot it. Bob Seidemann was the photographer, the same one who took the famous Blind Faith cover shot of the naked young girl holding the airplane. We used the crazy pattern from the umbrella insides for the inside of the sleeve that held the vinyl recording. That was the creative process at work. We lived for that, Gary and I, and we still do. ↗

— Neil Young

#creative-work #photo-shoot #dreams

Well, there's that girl on the Internet - although this isn't an example of someone who doesn't know they're on - but there's a girl on the Internet who posts one photograph every two minutes from her bedroom. ↗

— Peter Weir

#bedroom #every #example #girl #her

They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#beginning #could #hair #kept #legs

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#hollywood #i #invited #like #me