Black And White Photography Quotes

• When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!

  Ted Grant

  Photography, Black And White, Color

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• Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

  Doris Lessing

  Black And White, Simple, Black White

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• The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

  Robert Frank

  Photography, Eye, Black And White

  Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

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• In the beginning it was all black and white.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Black And White, All Black, Black White

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• Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

  Robert Frank

  Photography, Black And White, Color

  Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

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• It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Heart

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• Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

  Louis Aragon

  Meaningful, Black And White, Errors

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• The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

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• If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

  Robert Doisneau

  Photography, Knowing, Cameras

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• Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Black And White, Reality

  Ansel Adams (1975). “The role of the artist in conservation”

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• My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.

  Graham Chapman

  Philosophy, Black And White, Color

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• In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

  August Sander

  Inspirational, Photography, Shadow

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• My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, People, Cameras

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

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• Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

  William Klein

  Inspirational, Photography, Being Yourself

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• To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.

  Rene Burri

  Photography, Black And White, Nostalgia

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  You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

  Ansel Adams

  Music, Photography, Art

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• Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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• Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Black And White, Reason Why, Contrast

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Mistake, Care

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• Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Voice, Groups

  W. Eugene Smith (1981). “W. Eugene Smith, master of the photographic essay”

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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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• ...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Black And White, Color

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• I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley Horn. I am inspired by my mentor Diana Castle, who is guiding me towards a truth and honesty in my life and work that I have always longed for.

  Erica Tazel

  Photography, Beach, Honesty

  "Actor Erica Tazel: Working towards truth and honesty and the importance of quiet time". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Photography, Speaks Out, Ties

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• Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.

  William Eggleston

  Photography, Art, Black And White

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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