#photo

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#fixed #flash #forever #illuminated #life

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#become #been #camera #photographs #rather

To photograph is to confer importance. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#importance #photograph

I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#being #falling #i #nearly #out

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#confusion #created #earth #explaining #face

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness. ↗

— Paul Strand

#another #care #core #humanness #make

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees. ↗

— Paul Strand

#living #photography #really #record #sees

Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#became #cases #dramatically #even #i

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#always #approve #choice #france #i

Contrast is what makes photography interesting. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#interesting #makes #photography