Imogen Cunningham Quotes

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Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

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Inspirational, Photography, Art

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The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

Imogen Cunningham

Photography, Jobs, Thinking

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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

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Photography, Teaching, Thinking

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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

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Artist, Doe

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Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow.

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Tomorrow, Best Picture

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The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

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Photography, Portraiture, Fascinating

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I wasn't very ambitious. I think that's the solution. I just took things as they came. I wouldn't say I didn't have any problem, but I didn't care. I didn't think I was going to save the world by doing photography as some of these people do. I was just having a good time doing it, and so I still had a good time no matter what I had to photograph.

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Photography, Thinking, People

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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

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Photography, Artist, Men

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...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it. You have to have it in you first, you don't learn it. The seeing eye is the important thing.

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Photography, Eye, People

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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

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Artist, Waiting, Knows

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I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.

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Believe, Views, Individual

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I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

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Artist, Thinking, Should Have

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So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

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Jobs, People, Portraits

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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

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Artist, Thinking, Hands

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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

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People, Turns, Humans

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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

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Artist, Certain, Agree

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Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

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None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

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Jobs, Portraits, Faces

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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

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Silly, Artist, People

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A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?

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Artist, Faces, Firsts

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Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!

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Men, Puddles, Stealing

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I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?

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Creative, Photographer, Divides

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Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

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Artist, People, Late

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You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people bending over and digging out carrots - that can be very tedious. And so it's only once in a while that something happens that is worth doing.

Imogen Cunningham

Book, Interesting, People

Richard Lorenz, Imogen Cunningham (1993). “Imogen Cunningham: ideas without end : a life in photographs”, Chronicle Books Llc

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I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

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Couple, Artist, Years

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Born: April 12, 1883
Died: June 24, 1976
Occupation: Photographer
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