Photographer Quotes - Page 18

• One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Wish, All Time, All Time Favorite

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• I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Photography, Years, Tools

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• If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Doctors, People, Done

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• Do we know what we look like? Not really.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Self, Looks

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• When we hold a photo negative up to the light all objects are reversed. Black is white, white is black. Moreover, the character lines of any face in the picture are not clear. Once placed into the developing solution, what photographers call "the latent image" is revealed in the print-darkness is turned to light; and, lo, we have a beautiful picture.

  Catherine Marshall

  Beautiful, Character, White

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• As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their products, then I won't go anywhere until they're done with me.

  Linda Evangelista

  Thinking, Long, Dresses

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• I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.

  Alexa Chung

  Clothes, Creative, Lovely

  "Women of Britain - your designers need you!" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2009.

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• I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Thinking

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• The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Thinking, Cameras

  "Off the Shelf: Elliott Erwitt’s New York" by Rollo Romig, www.newyorker.com. September 14, 2010.

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• It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Anyone can learn how to develop. It's how you organize what you see into a picture.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Care, Academic

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• I don't think you can create luck. You're either lucky or you're not. I don't know if it's really luck or if it's just curiosity. I think the main ingredient, or a main ingredient for photography is curiosity. If you're curious enough and if you get up in the morning and go out and take pictures, you're likely to be more lucky than if you just stay at home.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Morning, Home

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• I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Real, Style

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• Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Want, Position

  Sean Callahan, Elliott Erwitt, Alskog, inc (1974). “The private experience: Elliott Erwitt”

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• I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

  Ree Drummond

  Tvs, Translate

  "Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman, Talks About Her New Show on the Food Network" by Brenna Cammeron, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Knows

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

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• People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.

  Tobey Maguire

  People, Sometimes, Inappropriate

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• I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.

  Giles Duley

  War, Conflict, Consequence

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• My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

  Dylan Lauren

  Mom, Artist, People

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• I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Men, Essentials

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• Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.

  Julian Lennon

  Trying, Moments, Capture

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

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• I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Teens

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• Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

  William Eggleston

  Drawing, Peculiar, Might

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• I was the Playmate editor for Playboy for two years. I produced two years' worth of centerfolds. I did everything on that, from picking the girls to designing the sets to picking the wardrobe, coming up with themes, assigning the photographer, down to editing the photos and approving the retouching.

  Holly Madison

  Girl, Editing, Years

  "Oregon's own reality star Holly Madison talks about 'Dancing'". Interview with Jake Ten Pas, www.oregonlive.com. March 20, 2009.

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• Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

  Robert Adams

  Art, Philosophy, Writing

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight … through over many years [I] still find it embarrassing to use the word beauty, I fear I will be attacked for it, but I still believe in it.

  Robert Adams

  Believe, Vocabulary, Sight

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