#photographing

The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the end of society in their eyes. ↗

— Seymour Hersh

#american #arab #end #eyes #having

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

To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step. ↗

— Kim Weston

#essence #eventually #formulating #going #ideas

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words. ↗

— Elliott Erwitt

#photography #the-joy-of-photographing-people #photography

I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women. ↗

— David Bailey

#i #love #men #men and women #photographing

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#just #love #photographing #putting #story

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#american cinema #certain #cinema #intention #me

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges. ↗

— William Albert Allard

#best #edges #find #i #i think

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. ↗

— Helmut Newton

#especially #extreme #famous #french #i

The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone. ↗

— Yousuf Karsh

#beautiful #beautiful women #dark #get #gone