1258 quotes by photographers for you to enjoy

I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos. Martin Parr

Book People Will Think Dancing Photographing Photos Been Years Now Eventually

Over the years, I have perfected the art of dancing and photographing at the same time: it's a great double act. If you're dancing, you are joining in. If you stand there rigid, you are not in the flow of things. Martin Parr

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Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary. Martin Parr

People Value Photographs Take Most Terms Documentary Little

We live in a difficult but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record. Martin Parr

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Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence the fact that it remains such a popular choice for wedding photographs. Martin Parr

Everything Bit Photographs Wedding Fact Remains Tends Almost Particular Look Make Romantic Sentimental Choice Popular Hence

As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted, because it is all so familiar. Martin Parr

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Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality. Mary Ellen Mark

Reality World Nothing Photograph More Than Interesting

I love to photograph people in their own environment. It offers clues to what's important in their lives. Mary Ellen Mark

Love People Important Own Photograph Environment Offers Clues Lives

I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte. Mary Ellen Mark

Reality Finding Most Irony Interested Forte Strangeness

One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work. Mary Ellen Mark

Work Wish Favorite Penn Photographers All-Time Could Him Watched

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society. Mary Ellen Mark

Work People Live Society Ideas Edges Around Interest

When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it's all about that. Mary Ellen Mark

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When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what the film is about. Mary Ellen Mark

You Director World Try Somebody Else Photographing About Almost Like Make Real Just Working Paintings Film Actor Interpret Museum

I'm staying with film, and with silver prints, and no Photoshop. That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer... I'm not anti-digital; I just think, for me, film works better. Mary Ellen Mark

I remember the first time I went out on the street to shoot pictures. I was in downtown Philadelphia, and I just took a walk and started making contact with people and photographing them, and I thought, 'I love this. This is what I want to do forever.' There was never another question. Mary Ellen Mark

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If I'm in an unusual or extreme social environment, I always want to know what it's like to grow up there and experience it as normal, everyday life. And I want to know what sort of adults these children are going to turn into. Mary Ellen Mark

A lot of people who don't have anything collect dogs; it's kind of a symbol of having something. Mary Ellen Mark

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