Photographer Quotes
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I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.
Andre Kertesz -
Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
Garry Winogrand
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I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.
Alec Soth -
When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, 'Jump,' no one asked how high. People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent that physical ability and personal decorum allowed. In that airborne instant Mr. Halsman clicked the shutter. He called his method jumpology.
Philippe Halsman -
My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings.
Rick Smolan -
It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.
Sebastiao Salgado -
No photographer should be blamed when, instead of capturing reality, he tries to show things he has seen only in his imagination. Photography is the youngest art form. All attempts to enlarge its frontiers are important and should be encouraged.
Philippe Halsman -
You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.
Garry Winogrand
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What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a specific photographer employing specific tools.
Allan Douglass Coleman -
Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like "street photographer" are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.
Garry Winogrand -
The photographic image has great possibilities. The magical photograph attempts to go beyond the immediate context of the recorded experience into the realm of the indefinable. The photographer as magician is acutely aware of the multiplicity of associations submerged in the appearance of the objective world.
Arthur Tress -
Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
Garry Winogrand -
For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography.
Andre Kertesz -
When the British-Malaysian photographer Ian Teh first worked in China, more than a decade ago, he rendered it as a nation of people in Technicolor.
Evan Osnos
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I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.
Garry Winogrand -
It's been a strange [summer].... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers.... Of course, I included myself.
Weegee -
Photography is my only language.
Andre Kertesz -
It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should be obsessed with stretching towards that goal through an understanding of others and the world we inhabit. When that happens, the results, like photographs, are really the expressions of the life of the maker.
David Hurn -
The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
Garry Winogrand -
Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.
Garry Winogrand
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It's disgusting. Why would people idolize someone who doesn’t do anything and saying you're a model/photographer with a digital camera and photoshop does not count as an artist.
Ryan Ross Panic! at the Disco -
We are extremely precise about the girls we like; they're not necessarily the "It" girls of the season. Sometimes this "It" girl business gets a bit hysterical. It's all about which girl did which shoot with which photographer.
Christophe Lemaitre -
I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
Garry Winogrand -
Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
Garry Winogrand