The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me
My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters. . . . . . . I'm a painter and I nail my pictures. . . . . . I'd like to be accepted into the Dada Club
Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
In those simpler days, you could just take pictures of movie stars and show them the way they were, as normal human beings. And if I felt part of any movement at the time, it was just to do that - to be journalistic and photograph what is, rather than what is made up.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
My goal is to create a book where the entire book-text, pictures, shape of book-work together to create the theme. The placement of images and text on the page is crucial for me.
Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!
You have to be aware that whenever you leave your house, you're probably going to be photographed by someone somewhere. Maybe those pictures will surface. Maybe they won't. Maybe those videos will surface. Maybe they won't. But you have to always be aware that it could be happening.
I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
A lot of the challenge and the reason for the success of those one-shot photographers is that their pictures almost have to be subject proof. Because you usually only have a few minutes with the person. You never know who's going to walk into the room - whether they're going to be friendly, grumpy, sick of photographers, or between meetings.
The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I was going to live with this thing, I was going to have to think about what that meant. There were not going to be any pictures without it.
I've been taking pictures of wherever I go, or on planes, whatever.
It is organized as a fellowship of men, a system of morals, a philosophy taught by degrees through the use of symbol, story, legend, pictures, and drama. It has served as a center of union among differing backgrounds, cultures, and countries. It serves as the means of conciliating true friendship among persons, who, because of differences, must have otherwise remained at a perpetual distance.
Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.
I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.
The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.
Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for National Geographic, and they gave us a lot of film.
At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.