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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without
instruction in art. ~Ambrose Bierce
You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow
it. ~Author Unknown
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have
somebody click the shutter. ~Ansel Adams
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and
have a pocket full of unexposed film. ~Robert Adams,
Darkroom & Creative Camera Techniques, May 1995
It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole
lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together,
don't even amount to a couple of hours. ~James Lalropui
Keivom
When you photograph people in colour you photograph their
clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you
photograph their souls! ~Ted Grant
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph
can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes,
there is another in which it proves to us how little our
eyes permit us to see. ~Dorothea Lange
Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the
sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose
film, only time enough to expose our hearts. ~Minor White
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. ~Ansel
Adams
There are always two people in every picture: the
photographer and the viewer. ~Ansel Adams
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of
a 35mm camera. ~W. Eugene Smith
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God
made in establishing tonal relationships. ~Ansel Adams
I think a photography class should be a requirement in all
educational programs because it makes you see the world
rather than just look at it. ~Author Unknown
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. ~Eudora
Welty
The camera can photograph thought. ~Dirk Bogarde
I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any
situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly
as interesting as photographing the edges. ~William Albert
Allard, "The Photographic Essay"
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good
photographs. ~Ansel Adams
No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. ~Edward
Steichen
Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I
assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it
were, they would have more to say. ~Author Unknown
Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If
a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have
that moment." ~John Loengard, "Pictures Under Discussion"
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs.
When images become inadequate, I shall be content with
silence. ~Ansel Adams
My portraits are more about me than they are about the
people I photograph. ~Richard Avedon
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about
everything. ~John Steinbeck
The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the
ever-present possibility that they might never return,
taught the real value of photography to every father and
mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his
country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation.
~Louis Fabian Bachrach
The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject
to change the photographer. ~Author Unknown
A photograph is memory in the raw. ~Carrie Latet
Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of
photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all
that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all,
aren't cooks. ~Henri Cartier-Bresson
There will be times when you will be in the field without a
camera. And, you will see the most glorious sunset or the
most beautiful scene that you have ever witnessed. Don't be
bitter because you can't record it. Sit down, drink it in,
and enjoy it for what it is! ~DeGriff
Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. ~Usman B. Asif
All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth.
~Richard Avedon
The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to
untruth. ~Harold Evans, "Pictures on a Page"
You don't take a photograph, you make it. ~Ansel Adams
Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer. It makes
you a Nikon owner. ~Author Unknown
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime
of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment
and a lifetime of pleasure. ~Tony Benn
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels
about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and
is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life
in its entirety. ~Ansel Adams
I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The
photographs make themselves with my help. ~Ruth Bernhard
A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is
beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be
true for photography. Unless there is something a little
incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a
copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it.
~John Loengard, "Pictures Under Discussion"
I just think it's important to be direct and honest with
people about why you're photographing them and what you're
doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul. ~Mary
Ellen Mark
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the
human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has
inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It
is a major force in explaining man to man. ~Edward Steichen
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to
capture a minute part of reality. ~Henri Cartier Bresson
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning
instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level
the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little
box. ~Henri Cartier Bresson
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. ~Henri Cartier-Bresson
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug
around a camera. ~Lewis Hine
A photograph is like the recipe - a memory the finished
dish. ~Carrie Latet
Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has
film. ~Author Unknown
Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal
situation appeal to me. ~Sam Abbel
A picture is worth a thousand words; a slide show is both.
~Author Unknown
One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus
are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a
style. ~Author Unknown
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget.
In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of
paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers.
Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo
more than a painting may change its meaning according to who
is looking at it. ~John Berger
I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I
wanted it to tell me something and through me express its
meaning in nature. ~Wynn Bullock
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing
is what it appears to be. ~Duane Michals
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and
the print the performance. ~Ansel Adams |
