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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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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Great photography is always on the edge of failure.
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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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It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.
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...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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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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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 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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Notebook. No photographer should be without one!
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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.
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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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I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way.
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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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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'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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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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André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about life, and a precise sense of form.
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Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.
