Brassaï Quotes

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

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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
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Photograph

• I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Me
  • Hollywood
  • Photograph

• Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • See
  • Photograph
  • Details

• I hate having my photograph taken.

  

  E. L. James
  • Hate
  • Taken
  • Photograph

• People put barriers up in your path, and one of those barriers is age. They tell you, "You're too old. You don't photograph so well anymore." I know I don't photograph so well anymore, so what can I do? I can do something different, where it doesn't matter as much how I look.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

  

  Weegee
  • Beautiful
  • Society
  • Photograph

• I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Different
  • Interest
  • Photograph

• Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Photography
  • Battle
  • Form

• I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • World
  • Looks
  • Photography

• 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
  • Language
  • Ends
  • Photograph

• A photograph can look any way.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Way
  • Looks
  • Photography

• 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
  • Said
  • Transformation
  • Photograph

• There is no special way a photograph should look.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Should
  • Looks
  • Special

• For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do with the contest between content and form.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Interesting
  • Kind
  • Problem

• 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
  • Up
  • World
  • Interesting

• My project could be only to photograph as I felt and desired, to regulate a pleasant form of living, to get up in the morning-free, to feel the trees, the grass, the water, sky or buildings, people-everything that affects us; and to photograph that which I saw and have always felt.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • People
  • Up
  • Free

• 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
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Teaching

• Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible for how it [the photograph] looks. And it's not plastic, in a way. The problem is unique in photographic terms.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Problem
  • Unique
  • Term

• Listen Wanderlei, I will do a home invasion on you. I will cut the power to your house and the next thing you'll hear is me climbing up your stairs in a pair of night vision goggles I bought in the back of Soldier of Fortune magazine. I'll pick the lock to the master room door, take a picture of you in bed with the Nogueira brothers working on your 'jiu-jitsu'. I'll take said quote unquote photograph, post it at dorksfrombrazil.com, password - not required, username - not required. That, Wanderlei, is how you threaten someone. Dummy.

  

  Chael Sonnen
  • Home
  • House
  • Night

• Derivatives are a huge, complex issue.

  

  Judd Gregg
  • Issue
  • Complex
  • Derivatives

• The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm ideological foundation, more similar to Mexico under the PRI than Russia under Stalin. But the measurement of the political and the economic evolution has not yet been completed, and is one of the weak points of the system.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • China
  • Communist dictatorship
  • Russia

• For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

  

  Brassaï
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