Photography By Photographers Quotes - Page 5

• Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Men, Sky

  "To Catch the Instant", Time Magazine, April 7, 1961.

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• A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Photography, Maturity, Order

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• I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Adventure, Thinking

  "Arbus Speaks" by Hilton Als, www.newyorker.com. September 26, 2011.

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• For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Important, Photographer

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

  Eve Arnold

  Inspirational, Photography, People

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• The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Inspirational, Photography, Eye

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• The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Facts, Opinion

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• It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

  Paul Strand

  Photography, Humanness Is, People

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• The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.

  Anne Geddes

  Strength, Photography, Impact

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• One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Cameras, Use

  Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

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• 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.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Photography, Teaching, Thinking

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• Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

  William Klein

  Inspirational, Photography, Being Yourself

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• 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.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Expression

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• Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Car, Yards

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• If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.

  Eddie Adams

  Photography, Laughter, Rip

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• 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.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Expression

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• Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

  Lisette Model

  Photography, Art, Photographer

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• It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

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• What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Shapes, Rhythm

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• A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Photographer, Digital Photography

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• I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.

  Ellen von Unwerth

  Inspirational, Photography, Photographer

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• A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Philosophical

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• I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Creativity, Shooting

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• Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

  Eric Peter Nash, Ansel Adams (1995). “Ansel Adams: The Spirit of Wild Places”, Todtri Book Pub

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• Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, People, Boss

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