Photographic Techniques Quotes

I would love to study photography.

I've hardly taken a photograph since 1967.

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

My friend, why should you wish to shorten my life by taking from me my shadow? (To photographer Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy.)

I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.

I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.

[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that could be happening, to some degree, with photography, too. It doesn't cost as much to do it, either.

I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I was younger, and I briefly worked as a stills photographer.

I'm not a nice girl. I'm a photographer.

My story with film is kind of different because I started with photography because my father was a photo buff. He had all sort of cameras, and I grew up with that.

I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being.

Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is that he maycommunicate a thought or an impression to his reader without the reader's realizing that he has been dragged through a series of hazardous or grotesque syntactical situations. In photography the goal seems to be to prove beyond a doubt that the cameraman, in his great moment of creation, was either hanging by his heels from the rafters or was wedged under the floor with his lens in a knothole.

You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.

I don't know. I don't go around looking at my pictures. I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures. When the time comes, for whatever reason, I get involved in editing and getting some prints made and stuff. There are things that interest me. But I don't really mull over them a lot.

I love photography... I'd like to write a show about photography.

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

It's not about knowing all the gimmicks and photo tricks. If you haven't got the eye, no program will give it to you.

I discovered that I could do whatever I wanted with a negative in a darkroom and an enlarger.

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.

[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she's well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet her and then there was some benefit where she was taking pictures.

I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

I know about photography - I'm really good at it.

The darkroom is just the means to an end.