#photograph

Anyone can take a picture of poverty; it’s easy to focus on the dirt and hurt of the poor. It’s much harder—and much more needful—to pry under that dirt and reveal the beauty and dignity of people that, but for their birth into a place and circumstance different from our own, are just like ourselves. I want my images to tell the story of those people and to move us beyond pity to justice and mercy. ↗

— David duChemin

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You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down. ↗

— Brendan Coyle

#down #get #i #keep #lot

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one? ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#face #first #i #me #oh

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#america #back #became #came #drop-out

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#good #photographer #simplest

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art. ↗

— Alfred Stieglitz

#arts #departments #distinct #equally #expression

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage. ↗

— Valentino Garavani

#back #bathtub #clothes #come #countryside

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#agree #art #clicking #fine #i

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in. ↗

— George Lucas

#business #crazy #days #everybody #film