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I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.
I had been teaching myself photography.
I came to photography by accident.
No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.
I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. And it's that awareness of really looking at the everyday world with clear and focused attention that I'm interested in.
This is an early digital photograph for me. I started shooting digital some 10 years ago. I had been using Kodachrome for decades, but digital techniques offered me many new possibilities and incredible flexibility. It stimulated creation.
The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart ...
It is an honor for me to take part in Canon's Project Imagin8ion, partnering with a brand that is empowering young filmmakers and is at the forefront of technology.
Today I am a lens, a pen, a gun.
When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
My camera is my compass; it's guided me to so many different places.
I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.
I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.
I never use a telephoto lens. I need to be close to people. I need their complicity; I need them to be aware that I am there taking their picture. I hate paparazzi.
I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do.
Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes.
Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.
The important thing is not the camera but the eye.
The world moves fast, changing everything around us with each new day. Photography is a gift that can keep us in a moment forever, blissfully eternal.
The camera can photograph thought.
I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.
Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it.
Life is a journey, photography is thy shepherd.
The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
Life's the picture. But all good photographers know you gotta have the right lens.
I can't hold a camera anymore.
No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.
There's a natural set of constraints with mobile phones that force you to be a better photographer by acknowledging and observing the world around you.
Photography was my choice of weapons.
The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.
Today I am a lens, a pen, a gun.
p. 1 ... Before My Eyes ... look for it on 2.11.14
Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.
As soon as I had the camera in my hand for the first time, I just fell in love.
My project could be only to photograph as I felt and desired, to regulate a pleasant form of living, to get up in the morning-free, to feel the trees, the grass, the water, sky or buildings, people-everything that affects us; and to photograph that which I saw and have always felt.
The lens is a tyranny.
When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what the camera was seeing. I interfered very little, and the lens produced anatomical images and shapes which my eyes had never observed.
I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island.
I don't really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially professionally, on the requirements. But my carry-around camera is a Leica.
A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults or isms. They are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. They are lenses of the unlimited reproduction.
I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.
I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day.
I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.
The camera is the instrument that brings the inner passion and the outward event into harmony with one another, this linking, or, rather, this coincidence, is successfully brought about, then we find one of the things that no image-making medium can accomplish to the same degree.
Photography is a very important part of my life.
The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?
When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.
I just got this new camera. It's very advanced - you don't even need it.
All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This surely is like playing 'Chopsticks' on a concert grand piano.
Cameras are simple tools designed to capture images. Images that tell us more about ourselves than we realize. They remind us of the long journey we've taken. The loved ones who traveled alongside of us. Those we lost along the way. And those waiting for us on the road ahead.
My camera is my friend, and I take it everywhere.
I want to allow others to reveal and celebrate aspects of themselves that are usually hidden. My camera is a witness. It holds a light up for my subjects to help them feel their own essence, and gives them the courage to collaborate in the recording of these revelations.
[The Polaroid camera is] a system that will be a partner in perception, enabling us to see the objects in the world around us more vividly than we can see them without it, a system to be an aid to memory and a tool for exploration.
To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
I've been lucky to travel and work all over the world through the lens of the back of the house, and I love that monocle. I love that lens, because it's real people.
My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera.
I like to know where the camera is.
I'm trying to take pictures of less and less.
Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.
[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.
The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.
I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.
I am not a model the camera just went off by itself
My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty.
Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.
From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.
I want to take a lot of Nasty photos.
Holy shit! Where's a cell phone camera when you need one?
If you can shoot well, all you need is a disposable, toy camera or a camera phone to create great work. If you're not talented, it doesn't matter if you buy a Nikon D3X or Leica; your work will still be uninspired.
Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.
[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
As a child I had been so afraid of so many things, but as soon as I held a camera in my hand, I began to expose myself to the very things that were foreign to me and that I had always feared.
If I want a small take-everywhere camera, I prefer my iPhone 5, which has colors and tonal range superior to any DSLR or compact digital camera I've ever used at their default settings.
I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must crystallize his ideas and set off in an particular direction. He must learn that shooting for the sake of shooting is dull and unprofitable.
Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.
The camera was another weapon in the wars of domination.
The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera
Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude studies and still lifes, one day we know that we will be brought to account: life is passing before our eyes without our ever having seen a thing.
I'm not saying I was scared. Okay, I was scared. He had an MP5. I had a Nikon.
In photography we must learn to seek, not the 'picture,' not the aesthetic of tradition, but the ideal instrument of expression, the self-sufficient vehicle for education.
If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.
The development of fast film allowed the subjects of our photographs to be caught unawares, beyond our or their control. But they are nevertheless caught; the camera holds the last lanyard of control we would forgo.
I just love the world of photography.
When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by the tripping of a camera's shutter, for at that point the future is still unknown and has yet to hurt us, and also for that brief moment, our poses are accepted as honest.
It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.
Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second.
The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is a hunt for new states of things, situations never seen before, for the improbable, for information.
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.
I do not see eye to eye with the camera.
One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.
I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.
The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.
People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person holding the camera.
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Always put your cap on your lens, because you never know which idiot will bump into your camera. And eventually that idiot will be you.
Cameras don't take pictures, people take pictures.
The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.