Photographic Subjects Quotes

I don’t understand why people take pictures of mimes. Everyone looks like a mime in a picture.

I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being.

All things are photographable.

I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.

I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank.

When you work fast, what you put in your pictures is what your brought with yoiu - your own ideas and concepts. When you spend more time on a project, you learn to understand your subjects. There comes a time when it is not you who is taking the pictures. Something special happens between the photographer and the people he is photographing. He realizes that they are giving the pictures to him.

If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that I found dramatic. And some of those turned out to be reasonably dramatic photographs. But that's all it is, I think.

I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists?

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.

I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.

I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.

I know about photography - I'm really good at it.

Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach.

Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.

I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel.

I photograph different people all the time. I like to shoot all kinds of people.

All I'm doing is photographing. When I was working on The Animals, I was working on a lot of other things too. I kept going to the zoo because things were going on in certain pictures. It wasn't a project.

I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.

For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.

I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.

I am a huge obsessor with photography.

It's like a visual connection between the girl I'm shooting and me, a bunch of triggers. A lot of girls I'll just shoot once or twice, but with certain special ones I'll go a bit further.

There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.