Photographer Quotes
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It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been told that my portrait of Churchill is an example of this.
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I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.
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Notebook. No photographer should be without one!
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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.
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My responsibility as a photographer, to my subjects, is to know what's going to happen with my images.
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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.
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Photography is my only language.
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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.
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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.
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I posed as an album-cover designer and photographer... That I today have some album covers and photographs to show for myself is a monument to the attention-to-detail of my disguise.
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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.
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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.
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Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
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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.
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I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
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It's been a strange [summer].... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers.... Of course, I included myself.
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Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.
