photography

I imagine that the essential gesture of the Operator is to surprise something or someone (through the little hole in the camera), and that this gesture is therefore perfect when it is performed unbeknownst to the subject being photographed. From this gesture derive all photographs whose principle (or better whose alibi) is __hock_; for the photographic __hock_ consists less in traumatizing than in revealing what was so well hidden that the actor himself was unaware or unconscious of it.

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.

These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--position and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them

The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

I am not a photographer , I am a canon owner !!!

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

Everything that flickered could be made permanent. That was what drew him to photography, what made every painstaking step worth it: the permanence of the image. That was what fascinated him, the working against time...

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don__ have to explain things with words.

Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing _ which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as art. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.

Jay Maisel always says to bring your camera, __ause it__ tough to take a picture without it. Pursuant to the above aforementioned piece of the rule book, subset three, clause A, paragraph four would be_use the camera.Put it to your eye. You never know. There are lots of reasons, some of them even good, to just leave it on your shoulder or in your bag. Wrong lens. Wrong light. Aaahhh, it__ not that great, what am I gonna do with it anyway? I__l have to put my coffee down. I__l just delete it later, why bother? Lots of reasons not to take the dive into the eyepiece and once again try to sort out the world into an effective rectangle.It__ almost always worth it to take a look.

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.

Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.

Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see it.

It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart of the moving world: they are glued together, limb by limb, like the condemned man and the corpse in certain tortures; or even like those pairs of fish (sharks, I think, according to Michelet) which navigate in convoy, as though united by an eternal coitus.