Michael Langford Quotes

• Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.

  Michael Langford

  Photography, Powerful, Hands

  Michael Langford (2000). “Basic Photography”, p.7, Taylor & Francis

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• It is only when your awareness reaches the heart that great progress from your practice is possible.

  Michael Langford

  Heart, Practice, Progress

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• Composition in photography is almost as varied as composition in music or words -- melodic or atonal, safe or daring -- and can enhance subject, theme, and style. Every photograph you take involves you in some compositional decision, even if this is simply where to set up the camera or when to press the button.

  Michael Langford

  Photography, Decision, Style

  Michael Langford (2000). “Basic Photography”, p.7, Taylor & Francis

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• As an amateur, you may envy the professional, wishing you could combine business with pleasure into a kind of full-time hobby, using professional equipment and facilities. However, the professional knows that much of the hidden advantage of being amateur is the freedom you have to shoot what and when you like.

  Michael Langford

  Envy, Wish, Hobbies

  Michael Langford (1998). “Advanced Photography”, p.18, Taylor & Francis

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• None of us works entirely in a vacuum. Unless you are uncompromisingly working to please yourself you must think to whom your photography is directed and how is it likely to be received.

  Michael Langford

  Photography, Thinking, Vacuums

  Efthimia Bilissi, Michael Langford (2013). “Langford's Advanced Photography”, p.396, CRC Press

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