Photographer Quotes - Page 26

• The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.

  Robert Capa

  War, Desire

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• I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used.

  Eliot Porter

  Photography, Purpose, May

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• But before all else a work of art is the creation of love. Love for the subject first and for the medium second. Love is the fundamental necessity underlying the need to create, underlying the emotion that gives it form, and from which grows the unfinished product that is presented to the world. Love is the general criterion by which the rare photograph is judged. It must contain it to be not less than the best of which the photographer is capable.

  Eliot Porter

  Photography, Art, Love Is

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• My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.

  Eliot Porter

  Photography, Emotion, Instinct

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• I have always been fascinated by the life cycle, the way skin metamorphoses over time. I am mesmerized by skin and that's why I've been attracted to the nude. I do think people show their soul when they are stripped down psychically. There is something wondrous that happens when we relate on that level - and I am interested in that depth.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Thinking, People

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• Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject.

  Tim Walker

  Mirrors, Play, Trying

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• Over the years I have photographed thousands of people. I have never stopped being curious and trying to discover new worlds. I have used my camera as a mirror for my subjects as well. I remember photographing a woman in her 80s for my book, Wise Women, who told me it had been a long time since anyone had really been interested in "seeing" or photographing her. When she saw the picture, she burst into tears. She saw something in the photograph, an inner beauty and soul, she felt had long ago vanished.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Wise, Photography, Book

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• Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our suffering is without meaning.

  Robert Adams

  Beautiful, Thinking, Suffering

  "Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values". Book by Robert Adams, June 15, 2005.

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• I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, People, Feelings

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• I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Games, Play

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• Michaelangelo said the mirror is our greatest teacher. My use of mirrors in my work helps me uncover psychic layers. Often, the face is distorted in the mirror so it is much more than a simple reflection. Sometimes something surprising emerges - some darkness or secret appears without us knowing why or giving it permission.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Teacher, Reflection

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• I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work is very much who I am. I didn't try to make it that way; it just is. It reflects who I am and also my interests.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Artist, Self

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• My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten older, the work has become more direct, perhaps reflecting the fact that for the first time in my life I feel really free. I have been fascinated with wings all my life. I have had an obsession with transcendence, the need to push forward and metaphorically fly.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Artistic Life, Wings

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• Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?

  Robert Adams

  Art, Trying, Doe

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

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• I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Growing, Theme

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• I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get it at all. It's not accessible to all people at the same level.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Thinking, People

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• Laugh, love, dream, strive, smile, feel, joy, look, try, fail, read, walk, search, share, help, work, fun, learn, retry, sweat, cry, rest, wait, fear, hope, trust, pride... when we have lived all of these, our photography might stop being a record of what our camera sees and become an expression of what we as photographers feel.

  Steve Coleman

  Dream, Photography, Fun

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• Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

  Ray Metzker

  Paradox, Victim, Tracking

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• I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

  Duane Michals

  Photography, Thinking, Enough

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• The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.

  Duane Michals

  Believe, Eye, Focus

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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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• 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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• What's been important with Flickr is the community that's been there from the beginning and the serious photographers that are there creating and sharing great content. If we lose that at some point then I think we have potential issues, but so far we've been able to do a really good job of maintaining that.

  David Filo

  Jobs, Thinking, Creating

  "Taking an open-minded approach". Interview with Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2009.

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• When I'm approaching a water jump, with dozens of photographers waiting for me to fall in, and hundreds of spectators wondering what's going to happen next, the horse is just about the only one who doesn't know I am Royal!

  Anne, Princess Royal

  Horse, Fall, Water

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