#photographs

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second. ↗

— David Hockney

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I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help. ↗

— Ruth Bernhard

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Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards. ↗

— Christo

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I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality. ↗

— Robert Frank

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I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

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There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took. ↗

— Matthew Modine

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I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars. ↗

— Helmut Newton

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In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors. ↗

— Helmut Newton

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The camera photographs what's there. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#photographs

So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way. ↗

— Gordon Parks

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