188 quotes found
“Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.”
“The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.”
“You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.”
“If you scratch a great photograph you find two things: a painting and a photograph.”
“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality and eventually in one's own.”
“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.”
“Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.”
“Life is not about significant details illuminated in a flash fixed forever. Photographs are.”
“Mediante la fotografía y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condición fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusión de mi pasado.”
“The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.”
“It was uncanny. You press a button and a man drops dead a hundred meters away. It seemed hollow and remote, falsifying everything. It was a trick of the lenses. The man is an accurate picture. Then...”
“A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.”
“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
“Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.”
“I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.”
“The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very existence ... The Photograph then becomes a bizarre (i)m...”
“John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.”
“A professor I had in college used to tell me that if someone won’t listen to what you have to say because you’re not wearing a tie, then put on a tie, ’cause what you have to say is more important ...”
“Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful!”
“If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.”
