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#photograph

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


Susan Sontag


#moments #photography #life

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.


Aleksandar Hemon


#photographs #photography #pictures #life

Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.


Duane Michals


#art #invention #nothing #photography #surfaces

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.


Man Ray


#existence #i #i do #paint #photograph

Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.


Herb Ritts


#another #career #finally #found #i

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.


Galen Rowell


#challenging #done #ever #features #find

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.


August Sander


#illuminated #photography #shadows

I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth.


Graeme Le Saux


#appealed #buy #disparate #each #enough

When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.


Graeme Le Saux


#definite #going #itself #lends #live

I knew Marilyn over a two-year period. I met her first on a movie called 'Let's Make Love.' I photographed her at that time on and off through the time of her death. I was 22 years old and she was 34 or 35.


Lawrence Schiller


#death #first #her #i #knew






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