Photograph Quotes - Page 33

• Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make these pictures. We need a record.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Photography, Needs, Records

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• When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, People, Portraits

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• I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise.

  David Hurn

  Photography, Saws, Photographer

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• I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what I really hope is that I have done some good photo stories with memorable images that make a point, and, perhaps, even make a difference.

  Cornell Capa

  Photography, Memorable, Artist

  "Photographs". Book by Cornell Capa, www.theguardian.com. 1992.

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• I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I come from a philosophy that believes you shouldn't have preconceived notions - that you don't need a gimmick. That you should just photograph what you react to - what you see.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Philosophy, Believe

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• As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see. So I never assume that only a few people will appreciate what I do. At all times, the public should be able to understand what I've done, even if they don't understand how I've done it.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Appreciate, People

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• It's nothing but a matter of seeing, thinking, and interest. That's what makes a good photograph. And then rejecting anything that would be bad for the picture. The wrong light, the wrong background, time and so on. Just don't do it, not matter how beautiful the subject is.

  Andreas Feininger

  Beautiful, Photography, Thinking

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• It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Light, Air

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• A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Real, Painting

  New York Review of Books 23 June 1977

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• The best photographs are made by the best people.

  Morley Baer

  Photography, People, Made

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• The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Simple, Together

  Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

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• The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're not supposed to look at the thing, you're supposed to look through it. It's a window.

  John Szarkowski

  Beautiful, Photography, Ivory

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• The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts with the photographer's thinking about the subject he photographs and is continued in the mind of the spectator.

  Roman Vishniac

  Photography, Thinking, Mind

  "Nature as it is" by Jacob Deschin, New York Times, February 3, 1952.

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• In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make the pictures.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Philosophical, Thinking

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• They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped all other systems of detection.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Sometimes, Existence

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• The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.

  Beaumont Newhall

  Photography, People, Fundamentals

  Beaumont Newhall (1982). “The history of photography: from 1839 to the present”, Bulfinch Press

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• If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.

  Beaumont Newhall

  Photography, Faithful, Historian

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• The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the results to others.

  David Hurn

  Photography, Moments, Results

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• "Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography; they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Photography, Writing, Thinking

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• While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

  Lewis Hine

  Photography, Liars, Lying

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• One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it...If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, Real, Mistake

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• The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.

  Anne Geddes

  Photography, Flower, Trouble

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• While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less than the registering of an emanation (light waves reflected by objects) — a material vestige of its subject in a way that no painting can be.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Light, Resemblance Is

  "On Photography".

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• Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Cameras, Arms

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• A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.

  Sid Grossman

  Photography, Vision, Important

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