Photographer Quotes
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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 -
The wandering photographer sees the same show that everyone else sees. He, however, stops to watch it.
Edouard Boubat
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I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
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.
Wynn Bullock -
I’m a photographer; I’m not a social worker. I’m a black dude and I will do the kind of work I want to do. I know what it’s like to be a black guy.
Barron Claiborne -
Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.
Ansel Adams -
I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.
Ray Bradbury -
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
Ansel Adams
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Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.
Ansel Adams -
There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.
Ernst Haas -
When we hold a photo negative up to the light all objects are reversed. Black is white, white is black. Moreover, the character lines of any face in the picture are not clear. Once placed into the developing solution, what photographers call "the latent image" is revealed in the print-darkness is turned to light; and, lo, we have a beautiful picture.
Catherine Marshall -
I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.
Nikolay Semyonov -
It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it.
Antoine D'Agata -
When you work fast, what you put in your pictures is what your brought with yoiu - your own ideas and concepts. When you spend more time on a project, you learn to understand your subjects. There comes a time when it is not you who is taking the pictures. Something special happens between the photographer and the people he is photographing. He realizes that they are giving the pictures to him.
Sebastiao Salgado