Photographer Quotes

I'll always be an amateur photographer.
I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.
I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.
I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.
In those simpler days, you could just take pictures of movie stars and show them the way they were, as normal human beings. And if I felt part of any movement at the time, it was just to do that - to be journalistic and photograph what is, rather than what is made up.
It's almost embarrassing, but I do have one trick for taking portraits on commission. I carry one of these little bicycle horns in my pocket, and once in a while, when someone is sour-faced or stiff, I blow my horn. It sort of shatters the barriers. It's silly, but it works.
Making books is a very specific kind of activity. It's not really a collection of your best pictures - although it is - but it's also a way of presenting your work so that it's not repetitive, so that it flows, and so that it makes sense in a book.
Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.
My life has been quite interesting professionally.
Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background, the clothing. I haven't changed at all.
Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.
The most awful museums are in China. They have magnificent stuff on display and just the worst way of displaying it. They just don't spend money on lighting and installation.
The ratio of successful shots is one in God-knows-how-many. Sometimes you'll get several in one contact sheet, and sometimes it's none for days. But as long as you go on taking pictures, you're likely to get a good one at some point.
The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.
When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.
Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view.
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