I realized that one of the differences between news photography and dance photography was that the former has to tell a specific story, whereas all a dance photograph had to be was visually interesting. – Lois Greenfield
When I started working in film, I loved photography, I loved the image, I loved telling the story within a frame, but as I started playing around with film and video, it was like, ‘Oh my god.’ You just have so much more to play with. – Lynn Shelton
My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments I can only begin to imagine. – Lois Greenfield
You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. – Joel Sternfeld
I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I’m photographing. – James Nachtwey
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today’s existence. – Robert Mapplethorpe
The way that light hits objects in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them, is really the story of photography. – Rashid Johnson
I loved photography but was frustrated by the limitations of cameras. When trying to take a picture of a friend’s young, active daughter using my DSLR, it was impossible to capture the fleeting moments. – Ren Ng
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. – Parker Stevenson
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it’s good to capture people when they are themselves. – Patrick Demarchelier
People don’t have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. – Robert Mapplethorpe
I also paint, draw and I’m into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You’re presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they’re going to ‘get’ what you’re doing. Some don’t, some do. – Paul Kane
‘America 24/7’ will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age. – Rick Smolan
A movie is painting, it’s photography, it’s literature – because you have to have the screenplay – it’s music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it’s a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people. – Paula Patton
I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film. – Ori Gersht
I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification – and photography can provide me with that – but at some point, I want to make an independent feature. – Ryan McGinley
For me, Picasso was the ultimate man. He taught me that photography is all about how you approach an image: what you do and what you don’t do. He inspired me to go beyond what you think is in front of you. – Rene Burri
I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious. – Pamela Hanson
Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time. – Pieter Zeeman
I’m constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse. – Ori Gersht
Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University. – Ren Ng
With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing. – Robert Mapplethorpe
I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school. – Ray Harryhausen