Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted.
I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.
I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.
Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.
I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification
Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.
Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.
I like form and shape and strength in pictures.
It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
Only photograph what you love.
The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.
Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.
The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.
Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.
Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.
You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either.
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