Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.
Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.
I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.
Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs.
I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.
For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.
Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
Only photograph what you love.
When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.
In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!
You don't make a photograph just with a camera
To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis
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