Quotes about photography
photography finals essentials
I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations. Bill Brandt
photography waiting luck
Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.
photography eye thinking
It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or ruins his pictures. A feeling for composition is a great asset. I think it is very much a matter of instinct. It can perhaps be developed, but I doubt if it can be learned. To achieve his best work, the young photographer must discover what really excites him visually. He must discover his own world.
photography paper shade
No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.
photography dark light
And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.
photography dare mediums
Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.
photography mistake ideas
Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs. Alfred Stieglitz
photography art real
Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art.
photography fighting
The fight for photography became my life.
photography gentleman imagine
If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say: He always treated me like a gentleman.
photography names done
As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love.
photography artist may
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
photography passion my-passion
Photography is my passion.
photography running struggle
I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its fight... I am not fighting to make a 'name' for myself. Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. It's a world's fight... All that's born of spirit seems mad in these days of materialism run riot.
photography legs fads
Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.
photography hands years
The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.
photography art expression
The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.
photography long quality
I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.
photography passion obsession
Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.
photography light photographer
Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
photography cost world
Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost. Donald Rumsfeld
photography always-trying sick
People are always trying to find the next groovy thing, and it hasn't gone back to painting... I'd like it to go back to painting. I'm sick of all this photography and video. There's so much of it, it's almost annoying. Cindy Sherman
photography art photographer
One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.
photography thinking artist
People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still definitely that happening. I'm still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that's really unfair.
photography fun acting
When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize. Cindy Margolis
photography sexy feelings
A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.
photography would-be assistants
I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough. Alfred Eisenstaedt
photography simple light
My style hasn't changed much in all these sixty years. I still use, most of the time, existing light and try not to push people around. I have to be as much a diplomat as a photographer. People don't often take me seriously because I carry so little equipment and make so little fuss... I never carried a lot of equipment. My motto has always been, "Keep it simple".
photography lying hard-work
It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would end up throwing most in the waste basket. You have to work hard at making an editorial picture. You need to re-stage things, rearrange things so that they work for the story, with truth and without lying.
photography important shutters
The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject.
photography diplomats photographer
I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.
photography successful hands
I don’t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film. Buy yards of film, miles of it. Buy all the film you can get your hands on. And then experiment with it.That is the only way to be successful in photography. Test, try, experiment, feel your way along. It is the experience, not technique, which counts in camera work first of all. If you get the feel of photography, you can take fifteen pictures while one of your opponents is trying out his exposure meter.
photography fleeting world
We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.