Quotes about Photographing

Photographing a cake can be art. Votes: 3

Photographing attractive people who were doing attractive things in attractive places. (Summary of his photographic career) Votes: 3

Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose. Votes: 3

Photographing plants makes you look carefully and become aware of the many solutions plants provide to human problems Votes: 3

I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird. Votes: 3

Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself. Votes: 3

Photographing friends means that there's a spontaneity to the images. I have a lot of love for my friends and family, and I love taking cool pictures of them. Votes: 3

The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start. Votes: 3

Noon-day sunshine cinema-ized the site, turning the bridge and the river into an over-exposed picture. Photographing it with my Instamatic 400 was like photographing a photograph. The sun became a monstrous light-bulb that projected a detached series of stills through my Instamatic into my eye. Votes: 3

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice. Votes: 1

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing. Votes: 1

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story. Votes: 1

People tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy. Votes: 1

I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women. Votes: 1

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing. Votes: 1

The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone. Votes: 1

I started photographing people on the street during World War II. I used a little box Brownie. Nothing too expensive. Votes: 1

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter. Votes: 1

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing. Votes: 1

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it. Votes: 1

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph. Votes: 1

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false. Votes: 1

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one? Votes: 1

I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light. Votes: 1

My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings. Votes: 1

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul. Votes: 1

The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the end of society in their eyes. Votes: 1

I really knew when I started photographing I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to be a voyeur. Votes: 1

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training. Votes: 1

I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind of backstage stuff, and I didn't even think for a second I could do it, and then I saw Babes in Toyland, and all that changed. Votes: 1

One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict. Votes: 1

I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations. Votes: 1

I begin by not photographing. Votes: 0

I Love photographing. It's that simple. Votes: 0

When I'm photographing I see life. Votes: 0

You adapt to who you're photographing. Votes: 0

I photograph [people] as if photographing flowers. Votes: 0

My only interest in photographing is photography. Votes: 0

Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me. Votes: 0

I'm past photographing to see what things look like photographed. Votes: 0

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Votes: 0

There's nothing worth photographing more than 100 yards from the car Votes: 0

I was only photographing in words the reality of it all. Votes: 0

I don't want someone photographing my cellulite - I can't take it! Votes: 0

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs. Votes: 0

People think photography is about photographing. To me, it’s about relationships. Votes: 0

Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her. Votes: 0

Maybe I had to stop photographing so that I could learn to touch. Votes: 0

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities. Votes: 0

I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently. Votes: 0

Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality. Votes: 0

The body is a place where our mind resides, and that's what I'm photographing. Votes: 0

I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses. Votes: 0

Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness. Votes: 0

Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening. Votes: 0

The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas. Votes: 0

[ My time and our common culture] it's what I'm photographing, and I'm very involved with that. Votes: 0

I'm photographing myself out there. Not myself physically, but mentally. It's my take on the world. Votes: 0

It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing. Votes: 0

The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything. Votes: 0

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal. Votes: 0

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man. Votes: 0

I'm photographing all the time. I'm such a visual person and I don't want to miss that moment. Votes: 0

When you start photographing somebody, it's like a lustful relationship and there's all the excitement of new flesh. Votes: 0

I've never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers. Votes: 0

Don't expect things to happen fast. Be empathetic with the people you are photographing. Don't be concerned about money. Votes: 0

I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography. Votes: 0

Why does almost every ad agency in the world set the time on a watch at 10:10 before photographing it? Votes: 0

...my way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things... Votes: 0

Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it. Votes: 0

I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes. Votes: 0

I'm very involved in photographing America now, so I don't think of faraway places, as I did when I was young. Votes: 0

I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice. Votes: 0

I enjoy photographing. It's always interesting, so I can't say one thing is more fun than another. Everything has it's own difficulties. Votes: 0

I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits. Votes: 0

I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos. Votes: 0

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason. Votes: 0

There is no one way of photographing anything. I don't believe there is even one best way of photographing any given subject. Votes: 0

I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about . Votes: 0

I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity. Votes: 0

I wasn't interested in just photographing someone naked, I was interested in representing them as clothed in their own skin, secure in themselves. Votes: 0

Ultimately, the reward is the process - the process of photographing and discovering and trying to understand why and what am I photographing. Votes: 0

It's one thing when you are photographing others, but when you are exposing yourself and your insecurities, that's the biggest risk. That's always scary. Votes: 0

I'm very much interested in water and women in water. I've been photographing that for years although I didn't really know it at the time. Votes: 0

I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them. Votes: 0

I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. Votes: 0

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been. Votes: 0

There are many images which I miss on purpose. I've done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn't change the world, or me. Votes: 0

Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation.... photographing has become the visual equivalent of cellphone chatter. Votes: 0

When you start photographing yourself, you are going to be amazed at all the things you find out about yourself, and you'll be glad you did. Votes: 0

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges. Votes: 0

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality. Votes: 0

I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every toilet I used. Votes: 0

Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them. Votes: 0

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today. Votes: 0

People aren’t photographing for history any more. It’s for immediate gratification. If you’re photographing to share an image, you’re not photographing to keep it. Votes: 0

[The most important factor in making a good picture is] to know who or what you are photographing. It is not about photography; it should be about life. Votes: 0

I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology. Votes: 0

There's always been something illicit about the way I work. I'm photographing people I don't know, when nobody else is home - there's a necessary degree of secrecy. Votes: 0

If you are bored with your own photography you are really bored with what you are photographing, so pick a new subject about which you are knowledgeable and enthusiastic. Votes: 0

The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever. Votes: 0

It`s hard when paparazzi are photographing every single thing you do. I'm sure a lot of people made mistakes - they just were not documented the way they are now. Votes: 0

There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're going to find the task of photographing it difficult. Votes: 0

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. Votes: 0

I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay with the people I'm photographing for long periods of time. Votes: 0

When I started photographing my boyfriend of years ago, Brian, I realised I had no right to photograph other people having sex if I wasn't prepared to take them of myself too Votes: 0

I like capturing stuff that is disappearing - that's the point of photography. What I am photographing is an imaginary place that never existed, but is connected to something that has already been. Votes: 0

I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people. Votes: 0

For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter if you're photographing a porter in a market in Marrakech or you're photographing the king of Morroco. You have the same sympathetic approach to everybody. You be nice to everybody, basically. Votes: 0

I never went to school for photography and started when I was pretty young. I was somewhere around 12 or 13. I started photographing as a hobby and carried that hobby through high school and university. Votes: 0

It's important for you to spend your time photographing things that matter to you. You need to understand the things that have meaning to you, and not what others think is important for you. Votes: 0

Yes, there are billions more photographers, and billions more photographs every day, but who's building up a point of view? Who's photographing with intention, and whose body of work will sustain itself and survive? Votes: 0

I never knew [Alfred Stieglitz] to make a trip anywhere to photograph. His eye was in him, and he used it on anything that was nearby. Maybe that way he was always photographing himself. Votes: 0

The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal. Votes: 0

For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things that are not real. Sets and actors are not real. Votes: 0

Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun, and women feel less as if they're expected to be in a relationship. Votes: 0

Recently, I can't seem to take a straight photograph without thinking that what I am photographing won't be the final image - like the world in front of me is not good enough or something. Votes: 0

My grandfather killed himself falling off the dike in Ostend while photographing my two cousins. This can happen so easily when looking through a lens: for a split second nothing else exists outside the frame. Votes: 0