Cameras Quotes - Page 32

• Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

  David Fincher

  Simple, Paper, Boxes

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

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• When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  Eye, Firsts, Photographer

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• The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with.

  Ansel Adams

  Thinking, Miracle, Mind

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• The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

  Rainn Wilson

  Being Single, Office, Style

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 19, 2008.

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• Physically, rowing was remarkable resistant to the camera... the camera liked power exhibited more openly, and the power of the oarsmen [is] exhibited in far too controlled a setting. Besides, the camera liked to focus on individuals, and except for the single scull, crew was sport without faces.

  David Halberstam

  Sports, Focus, Faces

  David Halberstam (2012). “The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket to the Moon carried a red flag. The first photograph of the far side of the Moon was made with a Soviet camera. If a man orbits the earth this year his name will be Ivan.

  John F. Kennedy

  Future, Moon, Men

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• The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.

  Lance Ito

  Prejudice, Analysis, Problem

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• None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That's the only way they are going to find themselves. They can't do it in their heads - they have to go out and do it in the camera and get it on film.

  Berenice Abbott

  Talking, Way, Film

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• Human vision is untrustworthy, subjective and selective. Camera vision is total and non - objective.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Vision, Untrustworthy

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

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• The whole thrust in my life right now is spinning my assignments around and making them work in a more personal way (...) I wanted to go back and do the original thing: one camera, one lens, one film. You really have to put yourself in a position of danger to be creative.

  David Alan Harvey

  Creative, Way, Spinning

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• Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.

  Susan Sontag

  People, Unattractive, Has Beens

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.92, Macmillan

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• The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.

  Susan Sontag

  Taste, Experts, Kind

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.93, Macmillan

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• The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.

  Berenice Abbott

  World, May, Merit

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• What some highbrows call rapport is nothing more than a mild flirtation between photographer and the girl on the other side of the camera. Some models get so professional they can send hours flirting with the camera itself while the poor photographer is reduced to the role of spectator.

  Sam Haskins

  Girl, Flirting, Sides

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• To live, to experience the world, to communicate with a camera, all these are interrelated and cannot be separated from everyday live.

  Edouard Boubat

  Everyday, World, Communicate

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• Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians learn a more technical musical language than the layman needs. Social scientists who want to work with visual materials will have to learn to approach them in this more studious and time-consuming way.

  Howard S. Becker

  Musical, Needs, Use

  "Visual Research Methods". Book by Peter Hamilton, 2006.

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• The camera is the instrument that brings the inner passion and the outward event into harmony with one another, this linking, or, rather, this coincidence, is successfully brought about, then we find one of the things that no image-making medium can accomplish to the same degree.

  Edward Lucie-Smith

  Passion, Events, Degrees

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• By close-ups of the things around us, by focusing on hidden details of familiar objects, by exploring commonplace milieus under the ingenious guidance of the camera, the film, on the one hand, extends our comprehension of the necessities which rule our lives; on the other hand, it manages to assure us of an immense and unexpected field of action.

  Walter Benjamin

  Hands, Fields, Unexpected

  "Illuminations".

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• Look may be that everything is right, it is always best to have an inspection before marching. To forget a screw, if you have a loose one, and only discover your loss when you are miles from home and the view before you is "perfect", is to promote, possibly suicide, certainly profanity.

  Henry Peach Robinson

  Suicide, Home, Loss

  Henry Peach Robinson (2010). “Letters on Landscape Photography”, p.30, Hol Art Books

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• Small, portable digital cameras that exceed the performance of an off-the-shelf Nikon using 35mm slide film are further away from current reality than the proposed NASA manned Mars mission, although I expect both to happen sometime during my lifetime.

  Galen Rowell

  Reality, Mars, Nikon

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• I had no choice. It was just something that happened. I was always looking for ways to act out, and I got a camera and it acted out for me.

  Steven Spielberg

  Choices, Way, Happened

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• To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Lying, Names, Deceit

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• The photographer sees the world as a child sees the bits of glass in a kaleidoscope. If he has a camera with which he can secure these ever-changing combinations, he is then able to look on them again and again, and he has the further pleasure of pleasing others with the sight of things which he, with perhaps unusual opportunities, was able to see, which his friends would otherwise not ever be able to.

  Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

  Children, Opportunity, Glasses

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• My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Photography, Wife, Photographer

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• I just want to thank people who take big risks in their daily lives when there aren't cameras rolling. I want to dedicate this award to people who stand up for peace and against injustice and intolerance.

  Paul Haggis

  Awards, People, Risk

  "The Oscars, minute by minute" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2006.

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