W. Eugene Smith Quotes About Photography

Quotes about: Photography

• Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Voice, Groups

  W. Eugene Smith (1981). “W. Eugene Smith, master of the photographic essay”

• The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Travel, Cameras

• Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Distance, Umpires

  W. Eugene Smith (1969). “W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes”

• Available light is any damn light that is available!

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Light, Photographer

• I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Emotional, Made

• I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Thinking, Purpose

• Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Glasses, Photographer

• The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by publications using it, has more influence on public thinking than any other branch of photography.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Responsibility, Thinking

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