No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.
My photographs recall the memories of the human race.
I wanted to put reality in my photographs. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. That's what was happening. And I was going to help make it happen. Boy, they did not want that in America.
Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.
I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same way I would take photographs of a plaster bust.
Photographs. . . are the most curious indicators of reality.
Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.
Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.
I like to add personal touches to my decorating style, including photographs and nostalgic items that remind me of family and home.
It's certainly important to include text beside documentary photographs. Furthermore, it's important to include text in a way that's useful and accessible.
I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's nothing much interesting to tell about me; what's interesting is the person I'm photographing, and that's what I try to show. [. . . ] I think each photographer has a point of view and a way of looking at the world. . . that has to do with your subject matter and how you choose to present it. What's interesting is letting people tell you about themselves in the picture.
Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.
Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.
Having a boy play a girl (and when I say 'play a girl' I don't mean that he is represented as a girl, because he is represented as a young man) is complicated. He knows he's looking at photographs of a girl and copying those poses. So the audience sees him as a man, but he can only see himself as a woman, because that's the model he's looking at. It was a really interesting exchange.
There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him.
I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you have to be patient.
I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal corrupting viciousness of its doing to the minds and bodies of men; and, that my photographs might be a powerful emotional catalyst to the reasoning which would help this vile and criminal stupidity from beginning again.
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.