Beaumont Newhall Quotes
If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
Fay Godwin
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Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
Harold Feinstein
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Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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I hate having my photograph taken.
E. L. James
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Having Buzz there is a great achievement, he was on the first moon landing alongside Neil Armstrong, so getting his signature on a beautiful panoramic photograph will be an historical item to treasure.
Buzz Aldrin
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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
Garry Winogrand
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Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
Garry Winogrand
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I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
Garry Winogrand
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In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.
Garry Winogrand
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A photograph can look any way.
Garry Winogrand
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I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.
Garry Winogrand
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
Garry Winogrand
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My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.
Garry Winogrand
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If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.
Garry Winogrand
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A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.
Garry Winogrand
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I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.
Garry Winogrand
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I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest.
Garry Winogrand
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I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we were apes swinging through the trees.
W. C. Fields
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As Carl Jung once said, 'When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.' When our boys become adults, we become their inner situation. We become inner voices they often hear in their work, relationships and spiritual practice.
Michael Gurian
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If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.
Beaumont Newhall