#photograph

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated. ↗

— August Sander

#illuminated #photography #shadows

I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#appealed #buy #disparate #each #enough

When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#definite #going #itself #lends #live

I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are. ↗

— Cindy Sherman

#character #copy #face #how #i

The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#feathers #filled #flowers #hundreds #i

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

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#time #art

Keep shooting. It helps the model's confidence. Flashing strobes are like applause. ↗

— A.K. Nicholas

#nude #photography #beauty

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