I have a wild game camera.
DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)
I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself.
There's a large percentage of mobile phones that now have a camera that's with you a lot of the time, and there's a lot of interest around those cameras as a data collection mechanism.
In the age of cellphone cameras, everybody thinks of themselves as a tracker.
Taking photos is a form of collecting.
I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I was younger, and I briefly worked as a stills photographer.
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
My story with film is kind of different because I started with photography because my father was a photo buff. He had all sort of cameras, and I grew up with that.
... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.
I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.
I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them.
Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach.
Aside from my modelling, by the early Nineties I was also starting to work as a photographer, which I loved.
A smartphone is great for when one person is documenting another thing or another person doing something.
I was always interested - I mean, it's kind of part of your job - I was always interested in the camera.
I came to photography by accident.
I never set out to be a photographer.
The phenomena of taking photos and sharing them isn't new, but with Instagram being mobile, both have become cheaper and faster, producing the instant gratification of knowing how our shots look in our palms.
But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.
All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
I love the Instamatic application on my I phone, it takes the coolest photos.
