188 quotes found
“When I was in school, I wanted to be W. Eugene Smith. He was a legendary staffer at Life, a consummate photojournalist, and an architect of the photo essay. He was also kinda crazy.That was obvious...”
“Everything that flickered could be made permanent. That was what drew him to photography, what made every painstaking step worth it: the permanence of the image. That was what fascinated him, the w...”
“That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.”
“I am not a photographer , I am a canon owner !!!”
“Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact”
“But I've always been a sucker for externals alone: the shape, the shine, what the surface suggests to my palm. So mechanically disinclined it's verging on criminal, I never understood the beauty of...”
“Jay Maisel always says to bring your camera, cause its tough to take a picture without it. Pursuant to the above aforementioned piece of the rule book, subset three, clause A, paragraph four would ...”
“I imagine that the essential gesture of the Operator is to surprise something or someone (through the little hole in the camera), and that this gesture is therefore perfect when it is performed unb...”
“One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everything is transformed into images: only images exis...”
“The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.”
“If you can see it, you can shoot it.”
“I don't trust words. I trust pictures.”
“You think too much and I bet it kills the magic," he says simply. "Some things are just instinct and if you try and replace that with thinking they die. You can read and think as much as you want b...”
“It is by studium that I am interested in so many photographs, whether I receive them as political testimony or enjoy them as good historical scenes: for it is culturally (this connotation is presen...”
“Every photo tells a story but remember this, there was a story teller behind the lens.”
“Knowing the right timings, good photographs. Learning from bad timings, better photographs.”
“I used to have a theory about photographing. It was a sense of getting in between two actions, or in between acton and repose.”
“Photography is my other kind of music.”
“Images are mediations between the world and human beings. Human beings 'ex-ist', i.e. the world is not immediately accessible to them and therefore images are needed to make it comprehensible. Howe...”
“what is ceremonious and curious and commonplace will be legendary.”
