#photograph

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#execution #expression #infinite #interpretation #medium

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#extracted #eye #i #i think #interested

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#amateur #i #photographer #writer

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images. ↗

— Tatyana Ali

#creating #images #like #more #much

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. ↗

— Richard Avedon

#i #me #more #people #photograph

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in. ↗

— David Bailey

#character #chekhov #depends #film #getting

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#captured #cease #eternity #instant #life

These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--position and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them ↗

— David Hurn

#photography

Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful! ↗

— Joe McNally

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Photography is the story I fail to put into words. ↗