Quotes about photo
photography taken expression
I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography. Peter Lindbergh
photography fashion falling-in-love
In 1990 I did a story with Helena Christensen about a woman who lives in a trailer in the middle of the desert and finds a little crushed UFO with a martian who has survived the crash. She takes him home, and they fall in love. Later he has to meet with his fellow martians who have arrived to rescue him. It's a sad ending. This was my first truly narrative story and apparently the first narrative story in fashion photography. Peter Lindbergh
photography reality affair
Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality. Peter Lindbergh
photography art thinking
Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest. Peter Lindbergh
photography art titles
The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title. Peter Lindbergh
photography believe inspiration
I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones, who have drawn too much inspiration from photography and who, over time, have a problem forming their own identity. Peter Lindbergh
photography opportunity giving
Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself. Peter Lindbergh
photography portraits painting
Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
photography art school
I wanted to transfer to an art school, and ended up going to the University of Southern California. They had a cinematography school, and I said "Well, that's sort of like photography, maybe that will be interesting." And once I started in that department, I found what it was that I loved and was good at. George Lucas
photography school race
I wanted to be a car mechanic and I wanted to race cars and the idea of trying to make something out of my life wasn't really a priority. But the accident allowed me to apply myself at school. I got great grades. Eventually I got very excited about anthropology and about social sciences and psychology, and I was able to push my photography even further and eventually discovered film and film schools. George Lucas
photography art school
I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking. George Lucas
photography stars war
For 'Star Wars' I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy I was looking for. I did it with motion-control photography. George Lucas
photography crazy mean
I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in. George Lucas
photography fashion guitar
I love to play the guitar. I also love photography and fashion. Emily Osment
photography eye simple
Something catches your eye, or your interest. You attack it in some way or observe it in some way, and try to put it in some kind of form and take a picture. It's as simple as that. Elliott Erwitt
photography want position
Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question. Elliott Erwitt
photography noticing-things function
Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Elliott Erwitt
photographer ill
Ill always be an amateur photographer. Elliott Erwitt
photography appreciate people
As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see. So I never assume that only a few people will appreciate what I do. At all times, the public should be able to understand what I've done, even if they don't understand how I've done it. Elliott Erwitt
photography magic crafts
Photography is a craft. Anyone can learn a craft with normal intelligence and application. To take it beyond the craft is something else. That's when magic comes in. And I don't know that there's any explanation for that. Elliott Erwitt
photography want photographer
You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business. Elliott Erwitt
photography noticing-you matter
You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. Elliott Erwitt
photography children school
Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors' children and so on. Elliott Erwitt
photography mean thinking
I'm almost violent about that stuff - electronic manipulation of pictures. I think it's an abomination. I reject it all. I mean, it's OK for selling corn flakes or automobiles or for taking pimples out of Elizabeth Taylor's face, but it undermines the thing that photography is about, which is about observation and not about manipulation of images. Elliott Erwitt
photography lenses photographer
Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing. Elliott Erwitt
photography goal laughing
Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does - now that's the highest of all personal achievements. I don't know that I aim for it, but I recognize it as the supreme goal. Elliott Erwitt
photographer vocation trade
I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation. Elliott Erwitt
photography ifs
If you keep your cool, you'll get everything. Elliott Erwitt
photography hands car
There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you how they've suffered and so forth. Well, I just rent a car and drive to the place and take the pictures. Elliott Erwitt
photography humanity care
It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organising them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy. Elliott Erwitt
photographer curious persons
If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer. Elliott Erwitt
photography mean sky
Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank might strike someone as being sloppy-the tone range isn't right and things like that-but they're far superior to the pictures of Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel Adams, if I may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard. But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to do with what he's doing, what his mind is. It's not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. It's got to do with intention. Elliott Erwitt
photography quality ease
Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general. Elliott Erwitt