Photographer Quotes - Page 2

• There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

  Robert Frank

  Photography, Two, Humanity

  "Photographers on photography: a critical anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons, p. 66, 1966.

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• Photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, War, Opposites

  "War Photographer". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Differences, Cameras

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• Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

  John Sexton

  Photography, Taken, Influence

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• I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can

  John Sexton

  Photography, Tools, Trash

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• Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

  Rory Sutherland

  Writing, Great Photography, Familiar

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• In black and white you suggest, in color you state.

  Paul Outerbridge

  Photography, Black And White, Color

  Graham Howe, Paul Outerbridge, Jacqueline Markham (1980). “Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs”

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• I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Creativity, Shooting

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• A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Knowing, American Landscape

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Noticing You, Matter

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• If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.

  Eddie Adams

  Photography, Laughter, Rip

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• The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Remember, Possibility

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• I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.

  Bruce Gilden

  Inspirational, Photography, Mean

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  Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Mistake, Mad

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• Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.

  Bert Hardy

  Looks, Photograph

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• It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organising them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Humanity, Care

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• When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.

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• A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.

  Arnold Newman

  Photography, Heart, Thinking

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• It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Use, Littles

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• My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Best Work, Ability

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• Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Essence

  Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1987). “Henri Cartier-Bresson, the early work”

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• I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Cameras, Would Be

  Alfred Eisenstaedt, Arthur A. Goldsmith (1969). “The eye of Eisenstaedt”, Studio

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• We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Fleeting, World

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