I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.
Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.
I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really study photography and cinematography, and the language of visual storytelling.
I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.
I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.
Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.
I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.
When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.
As a photographer, I'm interested in how dramatically photography has changed. Most images are not real or are composites, and most of us don't even know it anymore.
I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.
In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.
Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.
For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.
Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see it.
Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.
I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.
