Photographer Quotes - Page 13

• I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Artist, Storyteller

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• I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years, then they can be considered an art reference, but now they are not made as art. I'm a journalist. My life's on the road, my studio is the planet.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Art, Years

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• For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Art, Wide

  "Portrait of the artist: Sebastião Salgado, photographer". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2012.

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• What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this. I don't want people to look at them and appreciate the light and the palate of tones. I want them to look inside and see what the pictures represent, and the kind of people I photograph.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Light, People

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• I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Trying, Together

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• I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, School, Economist

  "Sebastião Salgado's best shot". Interview With Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2009.

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• I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Portraits, Machines

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• When you work fast, what you put in your pictures is what your brought with yoiu - your own ideas and concepts. When you spend more time on a project, you learn to understand your subjects. There comes a time when it is not you who is taking the pictures. Something special happens between the photographer and the people he is photographing. He realizes that they are giving the pictures to him.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Ideas, People

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• Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera to record.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Sight, Cameras

  Andreas Feininger (1982). “Total photography”, Not Avail

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• Every successful photograph, except for lucky shots, begins with an idea and a plan. The more precisely a photographer knows what it is he wishes to do, the better the chances are that he will do it.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Successful, Ideas

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• Realism and superrealism are what I'm after. This world is full of things the eye doesn't see. The camera can see more, and often 10 times better.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Eye, Cameras

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• With a short lens I can reveal the hidden things near at hand, with a long lens the hidden things far away. The telephoto lens provides a new visual sensation for people: it widens their horizons. And, conversely, the things under our nose invariably look good when blown up really big.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Hands, Long

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• The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that the imaginative photographer will compete with the imaginative painter. Painting must return to the natural world from time to time for renewal of the artistic vision. The key sector of renewal of vision today is the new vistas revealed by science. Here photography, which is not only art but science also, stands on the firmest ground.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Art, Keys

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• Know - how is worthless unless guided by know - why and know - when.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Know How, Knows

  Andreas Feininger (1982). “Total photography”, Not Avail

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• I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.

  Duane Michals

  Photography, Writing, Bird

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• If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world.

  Tod Papageorge

  Artist, Ideas, Vision

  Interview with Alec Soth, alecsothblog.wordpress.com. July 11, 2007.

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• Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important

  Andre Kertesz

  Light, Blood, Important

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• Take pictures of what you fear.

  Diane Arbus

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• Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. The photographers eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a millimeter. He can modify perspectives by a slight bending of the knees. By placing the camera closer to or farther from the subject, he draws a detail — and it can be subordinated, or he can be tyrannized by it.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Moving, Eye, Perspective

  "The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers".

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• You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it.

  Berenice Abbott

  Needs, World, Scientist

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• I'm not a nice girl. I'm a photographer.

  Berenice Abbott

  Girl, Nice, Nice Girl

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• I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design, something pretty. That was not the idea. The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Ideas, People

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• Every time I take a photo, it goes into SnapSeed. Even if it's just a price tag on something, it still goes into SnapSeed, and I start editing it. I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.

  Hunter Hayes

  Editing, Price Tag, Needs

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• The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity'
  of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The subject,' says one handbook for amateur photographers, 'must be simple, free of useless accessories; this is called the Search for Unity.

  Roland Barthes

  Simple, Unity, Accessories

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• I am not used to doing naked shoots but when you trust the photographer and the crew, you know it won't be vulgar.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Naked, Used, Crew

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