Photographer Quotes
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The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography...The reason is that photography is only a tool, a vehicle, for expressing or transmitting a passion in something else. It is not the end result.
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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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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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Photography is my only language.
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My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer.
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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 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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Great photography is always on the edge of failure.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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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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Notebook. No photographer should be without one!
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It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.
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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 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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Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.
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I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.
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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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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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I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.
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We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct.
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In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund
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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 project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.
