No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
Photographers want to reinvent you, to take you somewhere else, to show you in a completely different way. They look at your previous work, and try to figure out what they can do to show a new side of you.
We see the world through our experience.
You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.
Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!
I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.
Only a vision - that is what one must have.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic. '
I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?
Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference
What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual expression which intrigues the viewer and forces him to think.
I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.
Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.
When I first asked to take pictures of women at their homes, I was using my formal camera and I struggled to get the shots because I was still very much in the role of the photographer. Then the next time I had this little digital camera and their response to me would be completely different - I was a friend and I got new kinds of pictures. I was always treading a line between photographer and friend.
. . . [the photographer] can be considered a kind of disembodied burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers. His work, print after print of it, seems to call to be shown before the decay which it portrays flattens all. . . Here are the records of the age before an imminent collapse.
I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.
Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.
It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became explicit.
For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.