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Rediscovering Early Flight Through a Lens: Photographing the 'Wright Experience' .

Wilbur Wright

We are keen to get our photograph on the wall. It will be there forever.

James Allan

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

Mary Ellen Mark

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

Tallulah Bankhead

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Dorothea Lange

I think one of the best things about the film is that you get to see Eggleston taking his photographs, and then you get to see what the photograph looks like.

James Patterson

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

Chuck Close

It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

Jacques henri Lartigue

Africa is not just a place; it's a million places. It's a million voices, ... We felt no one photograph could capture the mystery, the diversity and the surprise of Africa as it moves forward. Our issue is a very forward look at Africa.

Chris Johns

In 3-D navigation, the driver won't just be seeing a road network, but the experience will be more like driving through a photograph.

Mark Peters

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished.

Robert Frank

The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.

Yousuf Karsh

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

W. Eugene Smith

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

Diane Arbus

Hands off! I do not molest what I photograph, I do not meddle and I do not arrange.

Dorothea Lange

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

Paul Strand

I gave them sheets to turn in with a profile and a photograph. That way they can be showcased too.

Kelly Finke

I've always been better at photographing things I like than things I don't like.

John Szarkowski

Another benefit of this book would be if people give us their photograph collections, if they realize we are a repository. They don't have to give them to us in their lifetime. They can will them to us.

Ann Thompson

Sam Baldwin: [looking at a photograph] She looks like my third grade teacher, and I hated my third grade teacher...... wait a minute, she IS my third grade teacher!

Sleepless In Seattle

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

Henri Cartier bresson

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

Minor White

The thing I love about dinosaurs is that they are on that balance point between fantasy and reality. It might be hard to believe that mermaids and dragons really existed, but we know that dinosaurs did- we can see their footprints and skeletons but we can't photograph them or see them, except in our imagination.

James Gurney

When I first saw the picture of Emmett Till, I was 10. I couldn't believe that something so bad could happen. I was fortunate to see that photograph because it had a great impact on my life.

Keith Beauchamp

He didn't surprise them, he didn't photograph them from a distance or over their shoulders.... He made a close, personal and emotional relationship.

Ben Shneiderman

Mr. Reed did a great job of describing and photographing the collection.

Barbara Parker

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Ansel Adams

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

Henri Cartier bresson

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

Alfred Stieglitz

Africa isn't one place. It's a million places. We felt that no single photograph could cover the depth of Africa.

Chris Johns

It has always struck me as being peculiar that we do so little with our military history, in particular with that war, although it would have been ferociously difficult to shoot before now - beyond our means and capacity to photograph.

Paul Gross

I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks.

Groucho Marx

When I saw his photograph, I thought how beautiful he was, ... He deserves to be remembered.

Barbara Brown

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Ansel Adams

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

David Bailey

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

Garry Winogrand

My career was 100% different from what I intended to do. I thought I'd photograph nature and landscapes but I wound up photographing the changing of the times.

Charles Moore

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

Annie Leibovitz

You can do red eye reduction, increase the sharpness of the photograph.

Kirsten Hemmig

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

Janet Malcolm

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.

Dirk Bogarde

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

Ambrose Bierce

It's one of the most beautiful sceneries you could ever take a photograph of.

Betty Taylor

Wrongfully posing for a photograph.

Lynndie England

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Diane Arbus

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

Lewis Hine

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

Richard Avedon

My wife most enjoyed going out every day, on every stalk, and photographing the animals and their surroundings.

Ray Swope

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

Roland Barthes

When you look at a good Ansel Adams photograph, you think you know the temperature, the relative humidity, the month.

John Szarkowski

Everyone has a photograph of themselves, but not many have a drawing or portrait done by another human who captures their unique characteristics.

Boris Vallejo

Well, there's that girl on the Internet - although this isn't an example of someone who doesn't know they're on - but there's a girl on the Internet who posts one photograph every two minutes from her bedroom.

Peter Weir

The level of work is just terrific. Perkins' annual photograph exhibition has peculiar prestige. The quality of work just keeps going up.

Judith Moore

He was trying to say to you or to me what he felt at the moment when he made the photograph.

Bill Turnage

Hugh loves her work. This photograph has opened up a window of opportunities for her -- no pun intended.

Lauren Malone

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Ansel Adams

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.

William Albert Allard

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

Edward Steichen

If you were to do a dissection and photograph it, it would basically look like pudding.

Stephanie Plunkett

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

Robert Frank

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

Daniel Clowes

It's an opportunity to photograph and document the condition of the station.

Eileen Hawley

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

Edward Weston

As far as I knew, he had never taken a photograph before, and the summit of Everest was hardly the place to show him how.

Edmund Hillary