photography

What was the barn like before it was photographed?' he said. 'What did it look like, how was it different from other barns, how was it similar to other barns? We can't answer these questions because we've read the signs, seen the people snapping the pictures. We can't get outside the aura. We're part of the aura. We're here, we're now.

First rule to be a photographer, you have to be invisible.

My love of photography is melded with the ability to capture what I want to remember in the moment I want to never forget.

...if we consider the difference between William Henry Jackson packing in his cameras by mule, and the person stepping out of his car to take a picture with an Instamatic, it becomes clear how some of our space has vanished; if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space 'in no time' is to have denied its reality.

Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it.

With flowers the sex is up-front and x-rated.

A representational photograph says, 'This is what Vienna looked like.' An interpretational photograph goes one better and says, 'This is what Vienna was like. This is how I felt about it.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever_it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to pass themselves off - or pimp themselves out - as art. The simple truth is that the best exponents of the art of contemporary photography continue to produce work that fits broadly within the tradition of what Evans termed 'documentary style'.

Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner_?

The cliché comes not in what you shoot but in how you shoot it.

This stream of watching made what was watched wanted.

He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. "This one has the magic," he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us.

What can be proved by a photograph, can never be by a word.

Keep shooting. It helps the model's confidence. Flashing strobes are likeapplause.

Everything built with an art, May your eyes couldn't see it, but digital eye can.

I looked at the images hanging on the walls, wanting to find those things in her pictures. My favorite was directly across from me: a photo of a beaten, weathered hull of a rowboat. I knew about as much about boats as I did photography, which was next to nothing, but that boat wasn__ going anywhere near the water anytime soon unless the owner decided it would make a mediocre shipwreck to explore while scuba diving. Nevertheless, it faced the out-of-focus lake in the background, almost hopefully, as if it hadn__ yet decided its best days were gone, as if it still dreamed of bobbing peacefully on the waves.__oes that one have a name?_ I asked.She smiled. __eaworthy.