Mark Getty Quotes

Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish.

My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.

Every time someone downloads a picture, the photographers get paid about 30% of what we charge.

When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it's all about that.

[Press] Photographers are the only dictators in America.

I came up in photography, and Dust Bowl-era photography is a lot of the reason that I got behind the camera in the first place.

There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.

My mom was a medical photographer, but on the side, she did a before-and-after glam photography business in the house. She would do makeup and hair - and I was her assistant.

It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

Anyone can contribute images, and we sell them to designers and agencies all over the world.

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist.

My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.

I've been very lucky, getting to travel the world with professional photographers. I'd grab their equipment, get a few lessons, and start firing shots.

I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad.

My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us.

Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

I was always interested - I mean, it's kind of part of your job - I was always interested in the camera.

I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.

I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.