photography styles Quotes

There is no special way a photograph should look.

A photograph can look any way.

Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

When I do the street stuff, primarily it's jocular. But we've also gone and done serious packages at steel plants or in the inner city.

Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.

It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

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.

There is something about this process, and about the whole 8 x 10 [camera] business, that takes it out of the arena of the snapshot, even though, of course, I'm always desperate for that feeling. I wanted those family pictures to look effortless. I wanted them to look like snapshots. And some of them did.

In 1982 I bought the newly released Makina Plaubel 55mm fixed-lens camera. With this shift from 35mm to 6 x 7, I also changed from black and white to color. Later that year, I started my project on New Brighton called The Last Resort. However, the first project I shot in colour was composed of urban scenes from Liverpool. This image was on the second roll of film. It's the first good photo I made in this new chapter of my work.

There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.

My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer.

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point of view is developed and young people are inclined to follow it.

I love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do.

I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

I always prefer photographing in available light – or Rembrandt-light I like to call it – so you get the natural modulations of the face. It makes a more alive, real, and flattering portrait.

I think as I get older that's an area that I'd like to explore more. Going from being in front of the lens to behind it.

Everyone has a different approach, but I like to shoot a lot of film anyway.

There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred] Stieglitz. I draw from all of them. You're supposed to steal from the good ones.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15.

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.