Constantine Manos Quotes

Greece, Photographer
October 12, 1934

Constantine "Costa" Manos is a Greek-American photographer known for his images of Boston and Greece. His work has been published in Esquire, Life, and Look. He is a member of Magnum Photos.

Try not to take pictures which simply show what something looks like. By the way you put the elements of an image together in a frame show us something we have never seen before and will never see again.

Constantine Manos
- Show
- Image
- Elements
Grain is the brush stroke of photography.

Constantine Manos

The flow of people in a setting, their changing relationships to each other and their environment, and their constantly changing expressions and movements - all combine to create dynamic situations that provide the photographer with limitless choices of when to push the button. By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.

Constantine Manos
By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.

Constantine Manos
- Time
- Subject
- Transform
It is easy to take good pictures, difficult to take very good pictures, and almost impossible to take great pictures.

Constantine Manos
- Take
- Pictures