Photography Trends Quotes

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

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.

People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters most is what the image communicates. I remember the first roll of film I shot at high school, the contact sheet went from these really worthy images of cracks in the wall and ended up with all of my dancer friends naked in Renaissance poses.

In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.

The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.

A lot of fashion photographers will do the same sort of image for many years; it's easier to be successful if you do that.

The way men are seen in photography, in fashion, and the way that men look at pictures of themselves has changed in recent years. It is a subject that has come into focus: The masculine image, a man's personal style, changing attitudes to the male face and body.

I find fashion magazines so incredibly boring . . . There still is no new photography and no new concerns.

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

The decision about digital or film is going to be made for us. I think the answer is that film is gonna be gone, although I think it'll make a comeback; it'll be like vinyl records or something.

To me, traditional approaches to doing photography and thinking about photography feel increasingly anachronistic.