Photographer Quotes - Page 31

• Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Two, Lenses

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• You don’t take pictures, the good ones happen to you.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Creativity, Happens

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• You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also give it back. You can put this feeling into a picture. A painter can do it. And a musician can do it and I think a photographer can do that too and that I would call the dreaming with open eyes.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Dream, Creativity

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• Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.

  Francis Bacon

  Photography, Jesus, Light

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• The only times we are consciously aware of the authorship of a photograph, I would argue, are when we contemplate the photographs we ourselves have taken (or those of friends and family) or when we go deliberately to the photographers monograph or exhibition. The signed image - the appropriated, the owned image - is by far the rarest in this pullulating world of pictures.

  William Boyd

  Taken, Family And Friends, World

  William Boyd (2008). “Bamboo”, p.350, A&C Black

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• And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.

  John Sexton

  Thinking, Artist, Organization

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• Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.

  John Sexton

  Thinking, Artist, Numbers

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• I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Lying, Artist

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• I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.

  John Sexton

  Beautiful, Artist, Dramatic

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• I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Artist, Thinking

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• I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Believe, Artist

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• I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making.

  John Sexton

  Artist, Thinking, Seductive

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• It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming.

  John Sexton

  Artist, Age, Cameras

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• The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Teaching, Asking

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• There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Jobs, Manipulation

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• Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation.

  John Sexton

  Passion, Black And White, Artist

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• Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Black And White, Quality

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• When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.

  John Sexton

  Jobs, Artist, Class

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• In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

  Ernst Haas

  Art, Believe, Elements

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• When the object that is produced...the photographic image...has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Eye, Inspire

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• A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for my eyes only, and they are no good. I find the single most valuable tool in the darkroom is my trash can - that's where most of my prints end up.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Eye, Editors

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• Many photographers are consumed with the idea of making beautiful contact sheets. I am far more interested in making the best final print I can.

  John Sexton

  Beautiful, Photography, Ideas

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• I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes a photograph unique relative to other two-dimensional media.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Unique, Two

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• Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Gelatin, Needs

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• Don't park... Arrival is the death of inspiration.

  Ernst Haas

  Inspiration, Parks, Arrivals

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