Photography Quotes - Page 19

• Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.

  Sebastian Smee

  Precision, Strangeness

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• Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that we are living on a planet that is going at enormous speed through the universe.

  Andreas Gursky

  Our World, Understanding, Trying

  "The Most Expensive Photograph In The World". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2011.

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• If you want to be a photographer, first leave home

  Steve McCurry

  Funny, Home, Discovery

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• I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on beneath everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide.

  Hope Edelman

  Family, Mom, Mother

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• I just get the will to do it.  I don’t plan a photograph in advance…  I work by impulse.  No philosophy.  No ideas.  Not by the head but by the eyes.  Eventually inspiration comes-instinct is the same as inspiration, and eventually it comes.

  Manuel Alvarez Bravo

  Philosophy, Inspiration, Creativity

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• A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

  Saul Leiter

  Beauty, Art, Portraits

  "In No Great Hurry: Film Review" by John DeFore, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 6, 2014.

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• The best camera, is the one that you have with you!

  Chase Jarvis

  Entrepreneur, Cameras, Directors

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• Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable.

  Stephen Shore

  Order, Photographer, Structure

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• I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.

  Horst P. Horst

  Life, Positive, People

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• My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.

  Nick Brandt

  Romantic, Idyllic, World

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• Very often I say to myself: I would like to make a photo where nothing happens. But in order to eliminate, there has to be something to begin with. For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.

  Sarah Moon

  Fashion, Order, Firsts

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• If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Strong Women, Independent, Responsibility

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• Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

  Matt Hardy

  Inspirational, Portraits, Snapshots

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• I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness and other times it has to do with funny mistakes. There's a kind of rightness and wrongness and sometimes I like rightness and sometimes I like wrongness.

  Diane Arbus

  Mistake, Brightness, Photographer

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• Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

  Arthur Rothstein

  Race, Language, Boundaries

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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

  Humanness Is, People, Humanity

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• I have gradually confused photography with life.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Confused, Photographer

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• A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

  Edward Steichen

  Inspirational, Cameras, Portraits

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• The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

  Susan Meiselas

  Inspirational, Giving, Cameras

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• Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That's really where the work of the artist begins.

  Lewis Baltz

  Meaningful, Art, Work

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• I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

  Gregory Crewdson

  Art, Nature, Fear

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• My pictures are about everyday life combined with theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of time, to take something routine and make it irrational. I’m always looking for a small moment that is a revelation

  Gregory Crewdson

  Time, Everyday, Routine

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• My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Fear

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• There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.

  Gordon Willis

  Imagination, Vision, Looks

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• Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.

  David Alan Harvey

  Mirrors, Looks, World

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