Alfred Eisenstaedt Quotes - Page 2

• Photographers don't need to be aggressive. Some are. Henry Benson is aggressive - but then he's from Fleet Street. If you can talk to people, you don't need to push people around.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  People, Needs, Photographer

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• It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would end up throwing most in the waste basket. You have to work hard at making an editorial picture. You need to re-stage things, rearrange things so that they work for the story, with truth and without lying.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Lying, Hard Work

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• My style hasn't changed much in all these sixty years. I still use, most of the time, existing light and try not to push people around. I have to be as much a diplomat as a photographer. People don't often take me seriously because I carry so little equipment and make so little fuss... I never carried a lot of equipment. My motto has always been, "Keep it simple".

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Simple, Light

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• In New York’s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Girl, New York, Squares

  "Mets-Phillies enters timeline of history" by Steve Berthiaume, www.espn.com. May 2, 2011.

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• I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Cameras, Would Be

  Alfred Eisenstaedt, Arthur A. Goldsmith (1969). “The eye of Eisenstaedt”, Studio

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