#photographs

There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#communicate #complex #concept #instantly #more

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing. ↗

— Stephen Sprouse

#clothes #control #could #except #i

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information. ↗

— David Strathairn

#biographies #get #heard #him #his

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ↗

— Richard Avedon

#none #photographs #them #truth

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 think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways. ↗

— Duane Michals

#face #great #i #i think #know

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

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

— Rivera Sun

#beauty #books #inspiration #journalism #library

Those static images have the uncanny ability to jar the memory and bring places and people back to life. They bridge the present with the past and validate as real what the passage of time has turned into hazy recollections. Were it not for them, my experiences would have remained as just imperfect memories of perfect moments. ↗

— Isabel Lopez

#photographs #photography #photos #picture #dreams

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#always #animal #ask #attractive #beautiful