#photograph

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#appear #chance #comes #excites #eye

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

— Ben Affleck

#amateur #i #photographer #writer

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer. ↗

— William Albert Allard

#extraneous #get #immensely #important #improved

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

— Richard Avedon

#i #me #more #people #photograph

I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with lice. That used to happen very, very regularly. I used to get headlice all the time. ↗

— Tom Baker

#being #children #discovering #get #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

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#feel #i #i feel #lot #my own

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. ↗

— John Berger

#any #belongs #does #drawing #however

Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#public-private #age

Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot. ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#big #done #feel #game #i