Photographer Quotes - Page 40

• The subject isn't always a help to the photographer, it's like handcuffs.

  Raymond Depardon

  Helping, Handcuffs, Subjects

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• The Latin American photographer has the possibility, and the means, for naming the things of our world, for demonstrating that there is another kind of beauty, that the faces of the First World are not the only ones. These Indian, black, plundered white and mestizo faces are the first element defining the demographic content of our photography.

  Edmundo Desnoes

  Photography, Latin, Mean

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• Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like.

  Philip-Lorca diCorcia

  Reality, Different, Looks

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• We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)

  William Eggleston

  Photography, Drinking, House

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• I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

  Bill Eppridge

  Thinking, Moments, Spontaneous

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• Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that you use at all times.

  Bill Eppridge

  Jobs, Sight, Looks

  Bill Eppridge, Pete Hamill (2008). “A time it was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties”, Harry N. Abrams

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• I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

  Joan Fontcuberta

  Art, Doe, Premises

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• I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.

  Joan Fontcuberta

  Photography, Needs, Use

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• Men die, heroically or fruitlessly, but man carries on. In Israel it is the same: the farmer must till the fields, the young must make love, and the photographer must, I suppose, be ready to photograph it all.

  Leonard Freed

  Men, Israel, Making Love

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• In some areas, [Getty Images has] more images than the rest of the market put together. But libraries are being built up at a terrific pace. A photographer in a lifetime will produce maybe a million images, and there are about 15,000 professionals at work out there.

  Mark Getty

  Work Out, Library, Together

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• One night I was on my [Navy] ship... on my first cruise crossing the North Atlantic in a horrible storm, chained to the rails so I wouldn't fall overboard. In this lightning and thunder and hail, in this misery, I shouted at the heavens with my little squeaky voice and said, Someday I'm going to be a photographer! It was as big an epiphany as any man ever had.

  Ralph Gibson

  Fall, Night, Men

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• When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a prediction about what will be thought to have been important.

  Frank Gohlke

  Important, Attention, Predictions

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• Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.

  Frank Gohlke

  Photography, Reality, Unlocking

  Frank Gohlke (2009). “Thoughts on Landscape: Collected Writings and Interviews”, p.72, Hol Art Books

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• Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer and the use he makes of his theme. When photography fails... it is usually because a false separation has been imposed on form and content.

  Sid Grossman

  Photography, Cameras, Doe

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• [Postmodern photography] implies the exhaustion of the image universe: it suggests that a photographer can find more than enough images already existing in the world without the bother of making new ones.

  Andy Grundberg

  Photography, World, Enough

  Andy Grundberg (1990). “Crisis of the real: writings on photography, 1974-1989”

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• To be a photographer is to become aware of visible appearances and at the same time acquire from them an education in individual and common optical aperception. Why? Because every individual sees in his own way but see little more than images shaped by the cultural standards of a given period.

  Raoul Hausmann

  Littles, Way, Common

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• In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.

  Graciela Iturbide

  Reality, Style, Way

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• A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

  Graciela Iturbide

  Imagination

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• I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed.

  Lotte Jacobi

  People, Cameras, Needed

  Lotte Jacobi (1978). “Lotte Jacobi”

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• In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph.

  Lotte Jacobi

  People, Style, Portraits

  Lotte Jacobi (1978). “Lotte Jacobi”

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• There is more in art, with an apology to that much abused word, as applied to photography, than startling display lines, on mounts and signs announcing artist Photographer, Artistic Photography Studio, etc., and the lower the standard the more frantic the claim.

  Gertrude Kasebier

  Photography, Art, Apology

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• For a photographer, it's a necessity that you can shoot stuff magically. Accidents are necessary, but after I take the photograph, it's not over. I work on it more.

  Rinko Kawauchi

  Stuff, Photograph, Accidents

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• I have always done the opposite of what I was trained to do... Having little technical background, I became a photographer. Adopting a machine, I do my utmost to make it malfunction. For me, to make a photograph is to make an anti-photograph.

  William Klein

  Opposites, Machines, Done

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• Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products of this world have never been widely seen because the artists are often exploring things that are not already coded in general consciousness. It's not that photographers don't want to be famous, it's just that very few of the views from the edges of culture make the mainstream. Ansel Adams was an exception.

  Mark Klett

  Photography, Art, Museums

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• There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home.

  Justine Kurland

  Photography, Home, Going Out

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