Photographer Quotes

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.
We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any time, or think they don't, on preparing themselves for the world out there - I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world.
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Photography helps people to see.
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
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.
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.
It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.
It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.
Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.
Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.
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.
You always wonder if you can make plays at the end.
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