Photographer Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

  Marina Warner

  Young, Bookworms, Models

  "What I see in the mirror" by Marina Warner, www.theguardian.com. November 02, 2012.

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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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• 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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• I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about the photographer feeing comfortable right when they walk in that makes the subject feel comfortable.

  Ryan McGinley

  People, Want, Shyness

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

  Tobey Maguire

  People, Sometimes, Inappropriate

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• Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

  Aaron Siskind

  Successful, World, Resolve

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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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• Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.

  Tim Walker

  Mean, Portraits, Needs

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• As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that's your picture.

  Aaron Siskind

  Moving, Eye, Relax

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• I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they must photograph, things they have to try to shoot even before they master the intricacies of making dye transfer prints.

  Robert Adams

  Careers, Trying, Might

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

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• Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth in the picture, it is so close to being a contradiction—and the truth is always in shades of gray-that you are worn down by the threat.

  Robert Adams

  Artist, Trying, Records

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

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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 history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.

  Robert Adams

  Art, Long, People

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

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• I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify.

  William Eggleston

  People, Appreciate, Imagine

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• I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture that’s not well organized upside down, it won’t work.

  William Eggleston

  Interesting, Quality, Down And

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• There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

  William Eggleston

  Reason, Search For Meaning, Particular

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• Photography just gets us out of the house.

  William Eggleston

  Photography, House

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• After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of.

  Daniel Silva

  Country, Fall, Practice

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• Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can see. They're threatened when the camera jumps ahead of me. Todd Kovich was pissed when I brought my Nikon to the prom, but I'd missed too many transcendent shots over the years to ever take a chance of missing one again. A prom, I told him, had a boundless supply of photogenic bozos who could be counted on to do something base.

  Joan Bauer

  Art, Years, Guy

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• The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the reader’s eye, this will be misunderstood by most of that minority which does not wholly ignore it. In the interests, however, of the history and future of photography, that risk seems irrelevant, and this flat statement necessary.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Independent, Eye

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• Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Art, Style

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• I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Men, Thinking

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• Sometimes the most interesting visual phenomena occur when you least expect it. Other times, you think youre getting something amazing and the photographs turn out to be boring and predictable. So I think thats why, a long time ago, I consciously tried to let go of artists angst, and instead just hope for the best and enjoy it. I love the journey as much as the destination. If I wasnt a photographer, Id still be a traveler.

  Michael Kenna

  Letting Go, Artist, Journey

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