#photograph

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#landscape #often #photographer #photography #supreme

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#crop #good #photographs #significant #twelve

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#ever #full #hold #into #just

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauty #finding #layman #modeling #perspective

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. ↗

— David Bailey

#before #everything #extraordinary #good #imagination

I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck. ↗

— Henry Winkler

#credits #director #driveway #how #i

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts. ↗

— Garry Winogrand

#around #change #edges #facts #finding

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#away #else #enormous #excited #getting

All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library. ↗

— Rivera Sun

#beauty #books #inspiration #journalism #library

Among the things she said: "Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist ... such as personality, patience and intuition. The sitter ought to be the predominating factor in a successful portrait. Men portraitist are apt to forget this; they are inclined to lose the sitter in a maze of technique luxuriating in the cleverness and beauty of their own medium. ↗

— Whitney Otto

#women #beauty