Quotes of: Photographic Keyword

By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world.

Martin Parr

Title: There were two loves in his life: his engine and... [cut to his sweetheart's photograph]

The General

Major General Colt: Hey, did you lose my aerial photographs?

Kelly's Heroes

Stills Photographer: Are you drinking, no? Bob: Am I drinking? As soon as I'm done.

Lost in Translation

Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence the fact that it remains such a popular choice for wedding photographs.

Martin Parr

My only rule: I never photographed the face of the dead, ever, out of respect for the families.

David Douglas Duncan

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Ansel Adams

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Ansel Adams

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

Al Goldstein

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

Alison Jackson

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

Annie Parisse

When I make a photograph I feel that I hold a piece of the universe in my hands.

Life

These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--position and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them

Love

I've never taken a photograph of someone and created a persona, I've just discovered what was already there.

Life

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Walker Evans

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

Don DeLillo

My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.

Bill Skarsgard

One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.

Mary Ellen Mark

I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it's a mistake for me.

Cat Power

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.

Lisa Kristine

My one regret was that I never photographed the bat before we drank it.

Glory O'Brien's History of the Future