Photographer Quotes - Page 23

• I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Believe, People

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• There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which does something to them. It fixes them in a way.

  Diane Arbus

  Mean, Magic, Cameras

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• Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Squares

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• If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Games, Elements

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• I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Fall, Light

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• As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, People, Interesting

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• Never put lettering in your photos unless you want it read.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Want

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• I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Believe, Air

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• Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Firsts, Architecture

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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• A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Accidents, Concepts

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• If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

  Richard Avedon

  Giving Up, Soul, Pieces

  "Picture of the week: Women, by Richard Avedon" by Hannah Booth, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2013.

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• The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.

  Richard Avedon

  Reality, People, Knows

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• The photographer’s vision convinces us to the degree that the photographer hides his hand.

  John Szarkowski

  Hands, Convince Us, Vision

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• A picture should be looked at - not talked about.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Should

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• The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

  Andre Kertesz

  Photography, Giving, Cameras

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• At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are. We never accomplish this perfectly, though in return we are given something perfect--a sense of inclusion. Our subject thus redefines us, and is part of the biography by which we want to be known.

  Robert Adams

  Perfect, Interesting, Honor

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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• All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a collaborative situation.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Dream, Dancer, Body

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• I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Lenses

  "Portrait of the artist: Sebastião Salgado, photographer". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2012.

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• When I was just starting out, I met Cartier-Bresson. He wasn't young in age but, in his mind, he was the youngest person I'd ever met. He told me it was necessary to trust my instincts, be inside my work, and set aside my ego. In the end, my photography turned out very different to his, but I believe we were coming from the same place.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Believe, Ego

  "Portrait of the artist: Sebastião Salgado, photographer". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2012.

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• For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Art, Wide

  "Portrait of the artist: Sebastião Salgado, photographer". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2012.

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• Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

  Richard Avedon

  Art, Levels, Ifs

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• What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this. I don't want people to look at them and appreciate the light and the palate of tones. I want them to look inside and see what the pictures represent, and the kind of people I photograph.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Light, People

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• I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Trying, Together

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• Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave this brilliant, intense pronouncement of nature, 'Here I am.'

  Emmet Gowin

  Photography, Art, Butterfly

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• Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera to record.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Sight, Cameras

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

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