#photograph

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

I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part. ↗

— Kim Weston

#always #classic #deciding #how #i

I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality. ↗

— Kim Weston

#i #i think #personality #photographers #their

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful. ↗

— Don Roff

#assume #audience #creative #creative-process #drawing

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#capture #fashion-designer #forever #gone #impossible

No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas, and wouldas that befuddle our brains and creep into our dreams, always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It’s the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer. ↗

— Joe McNally

#art

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#photographs #photography #art

I want pictures like these. The kind that can capture a moment, make it real, make it last. I need pictures that do more than reflect. I need pictures that are truth. ↗

— Lisa Magnum

#photography #truth #art

It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will change or die. It is the future they are innocent of. Fifty years on we look at them with the godly knowledge of how they turne dout after all - who they married, the date of their death - with no thought for who will one day be holding photographs of us. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#mortality #photography #change

One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#photography