Photographer Quotes - Page 36

• I really enjoy behind the camera stuff and I'm a frustrated photographer myself and just love the camera. I love that side of it and that part of the filmmaking world and I enjoy developing things. It's an area that I'll continue to be more active in as time goes by.

  Eric Bana

  Frustrated, Cameras, World

  "The Other Boleyn Girl - Eric Bana interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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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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• There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and not just reactively, and whose approach is multi-faceted. We need more "useful photographers."

  Fred Ritchin

  Needs, Stories, Narrative

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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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• As photographers, we have to find our own identity, our own voice, our own vocabulary. And my question all the time is whether this vocabulary is limited, like our own vocabulary that goes from A to Zed, or whether this vocabulary can carry on growing. And to me, I hope that it carries on growing.

  Mario Testino

  Voice, Vocabulary, Identity

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• I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach.

  Sally Mann

  Thinking, Trying, Layers

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• People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope that in the absence of cameramen acts might not be committed. Others felt that the mob was beyond appeal to mercy. They stayed and won Pulitzer Prizes. Were they right?

  Harold Evans

  People, Departed, Cameras

  Harold Evans (1978). “Editing and Design: Pictures on a page”

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• Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like "street photographer" are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

  Garry Winogrand

  Stupid, Thinking, Titles

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• It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it.

  Antoine D'Agata

  Intimate Relationships, Important, Looks

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• And one has to remember that no photography can pretend to show the truth. A picture only shows a given situation under a very specific perspective, consciously or not, openly or not, relevantly or not. Photographers have to accept they can just convey fragments of illusory realities and relate their own intimate experience of the world. In this process of fictionalising an unreachable truth, it's up to them to impose their doubts about any photographic truth, or accept being impotent pawns in the mediatic game.

  Antoine D'Agata

  Photography, Reality, Games

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• I never considered myself a good photographer. I still don't. I thought of myself as a hard worker. My camera was a sponge and I had an instinct that athletes have - anticipation. Photography really represents an enormous amount of anticipation - understanding what might be there the next moment and being prepared for it.

  Lawrence Schiller

  Photography, Hard Work, Athlete

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If you look at the greatest models, it was because they were muses to photographers. They collaborated with the artist and they created the kind of images that become iconic.

  Michael Flutie

  Artist, Looks, Kind

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm flattered by the offers I receive, but there's no real strategy to the way I choose what to do these days. If I'm in a good mood and have the time, I'm more likely to consider it. Often the photographer and team are important factors, too.

  Christy Turlington

  Real, Team, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because I want that for myself when it's my turn to do my work and I never try and control it or say I'll only do this or I want it like that.

  Helen Mirren

  Photography, Art, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras

  Edward Weston

  Cameras, Simplest

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• The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five papers, I think. We were out all the time around the clock and every time we came across a really juicy murder or scandal or whatever, they'd send the big time reporters and photographers, otherwise they'd run our stories. So that's what I was doing, and I was going to university at the same time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, Thinking, Cities

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• We don't have only two eyes; we have hundreds of wonderful eyes, because there are hundreds of wonderful photographers!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eye, Two, Wonderful

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• Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day.

  John Loengard

  Summer, Teacher, Middle

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• ...insight, vision, moments of revelation. During those rare moments something overtakes the man and he becomes the tool of a greater Force; the servant of, willing or unwilling depending on his degree of awakeness. The photograph, then, is a message more than a mirror, and the mans a messenger who happens to be a photographer.

  Minor White

  Men, Mirrors, Vision

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• Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.

  Pablo Picasso

  Doctors, Two, Frustrated

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• My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was in the Baltimore punk scene. I knew it was a special time, so I went out and documented that whole era. I was the only person to really do it of my friends in real black and white, beautiful portraits.

  Jeff Vespa

  Beautiful, Mom, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There were just moments of the punk scene and I realized that I had to capture it. There was also this photographer in our preschool - I went to a Montessori school in Baltimore, Maryland - and they had this photographer come and take all these incredible photographs. They looked like they were from Life magazine.

  Jeff Vespa

  School, Magazines, Baltimore

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in Paris. He didn't consider himself an artist, but he was probably one of the artists of the 20th century. This guy documented all of Paris during those years. It's unbelievable. The books are phenomenal. The Museum of Modern Art has all his stuff now and [American photographer] Berenice Abbott saved his work. Not very much is known about his life, but the work is unreal and it totally spoke to me. He was the only artist for a number of years that I cared about at all.

  Jeff Vespa

  Teacher, Art, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of people have done that over the years. Many of the agencies today were started by photographers. It's a normal progression. It wasn't some crazy idea, it was just, "Can we start our own agency? Can we do this?"

  Jeff Vespa

  Crazy, Agency, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was fooling around one day and looking at Yahoo! Jobs. I typed in "photo" and, of course, what comes up is "One hour photo lab" or "Be a photographer in Disneyland" or jobs that no one really wants as a photographer. I saw, by chance, this ad that said, "Wanted: Photographer for premieres and Hollywood events" and I thought, "This can not be real. This is ridiculous. No one advertizes this!" I was really suspect about it.

  Jeff Vespa

  Jobs, Real, One Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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