Ruth Orkin Quotes

• My mother said that when I was young I was constantly saying, Look at this - Look at that. I think that taking pictures must be my way of asking people to Look at this - Look at that. If my photographs make the viewer feel what I did when I first took them - Isn't this funny... terrible... moving... beautiful? - then I've accomplished my purpose.

  Ruth Orkin

  Beautiful, Mother, Moving

  Ruth Orkin (1981). “A Photo Journal”, Studio

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• Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

  Ruth Orkin

  People, Looks, Want

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• To be a photojournalist takes experience, skill, endurance, energy, salesmanship, organization, wheedling, climbing, gatecrashing, etc. - plus an eye and patience.

  Ruth Orkin

  Eye, Climbing, Skills

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