One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce.
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.
Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.
If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
. . . to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.
Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.
I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.
If I feel confident wearing something, I think it translates in photographs. It changes my demeanor and posture.
I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth all the photographs that were ever dipped in acid. . . Believe me, photography can do against line engraving just what Madame Tussaud's wax-work can do against sculpture. That and no more. (1865)
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.
In assembling this group of portraits of women, I'm aware that I'm treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I learned to be distrustful of men's depictions of women. I remember seeing Garry Winogrand's book Women Are Beautiful in the school library and being shocked that it hadn't been defaced for its blatant objectification of women. But looking back, maybe I was too harsh. Whether one photographs men or women, it is always a form of objectification. Whatever you say about Winogrand, his depiction was honest.
Photographs are still being taken but aren't being shown. There's one of a skeleton bound at the wrists with pants still around its ankles; if it was a woman, she was likely raped; if it was a man, he was possibly castrated.
The collection of photographs is a statement about the relationship of my camera and me.
I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture. . . I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of my photographs.
The pictures from the first professional photo session that the young David Beckham submitted himself to are extraordinary. He has a barely suppressed smile, as though he and the cameraman are complicit in the understanding that this is not yet David Beckham we see and that there is an element of deceit in selling the photographs as such
I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.
People say photographs don't lie, mine do.
My life and work are not separate. I just have more roles than other people. And I have photographs.