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Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

I've been working with photography for many years.

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.