She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front of her face. 'Unfortunately I didn't realise there was a French Revolutionary theme. ' 'The Marie-Antoinette thing?' said Dexter. 'Well at least we know there'll be cake.
Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.
All photographs are far more important than any painting.
They took 3-D digital photographs of my entire body. I had to pose stark naked, assuming a kind of Spider-Man position. After a minute, one of the technicians pointed to my genitals and said, Um, we're not getting enough data there. . . It wasn't what you think. It turns out that the fancy digital camera doesn't pick up dark areas too well, and they were having trouble because of the hair down there. I actually had to spray on this highlighter stuff. (On having digital photos taken for the invisible man role in the film Hollow Man)
Usually I think if there is something imperfect in a photograph it makes the picture more real. Photographs that are slick, smooth, and imperfect seem less honest to me.
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.
To me, photographs are like words and I generally will place many photographs together or print them one inside the other in order to construct a free-floating sentence that speaks about the world I witness.
I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.
The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.
How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time.
All aspects of photography interest me and I feel for the female body the same curiosity and the same love as for a landscape, a face or anything else which interests me. In any case, the nude is a form of landscape. There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment, on the mood of the model.
I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.
Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and put them in the book. But she said the idea of a book was to describe things using words so that people could read them and make a picture in their own head.
He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.
Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.
Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.
I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.