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Quotes by Photographer
"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."
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"People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film."
41
"Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist."
41
"Once you develop your own style, you know when you're able to give your best. Feeling at home is part of it, and I don't think that's an L.A. thing. It's a matter of the environment and of what affects you."
41
"I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace."
41
"So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way."
41
"Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer."
41
"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."
41
"Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell."
41
"The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone."
41
"I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people."
41
"What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional."
41
"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."
41
"During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."
41
"We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness."
41
"I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough."
Work,
41
"I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it."
41
"We spend so much time together, because that's how we like it. I never used to go on girl's nights out, even at school. And Paul has never liked going out for a night with the boys, either."
41
"There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know."
41
"But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived."
41
"I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream."
41
"People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris."
40
"But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another."
40
"Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously."
40
"It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!"
40
"I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph."
40
"I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent."
40
"The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images."
40
"I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that."
40
"I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out."
40
"My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be."
40
"I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children."
40
"No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do."
40
"In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors."
40
"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."
40
"A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it."
40
"Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions."
40
"When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history."
40
"I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me."
40
"We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive."
Now,
40
"I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse."
40
"They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure."
Old,
40
"A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population."
40
"It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress."
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