Erwin Blumenfeld Quotes

• I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.

  Erwin Blumenfeld

  Soul, Likes, Photographer

  "Erwin Blumenfeld’s Studio" by Genevieve Fussell, www.newyorker.com. September 15, 2014.

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• Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the real from the unreal, to give visions body, to penetrate into unknown transparencies.

  Erwin Blumenfeld

  Real, Night, Two

  Erwin Blumenfeld, Hendel Teicher (1981). “Blumenfeld, my one hundred best photos”

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• Beauty is not pretty.

  Erwin Blumenfeld

  Not Pretty

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