Bill Eppridge Quotes

• You are not just a photojournalist, you're a historian.

  Bill Eppridge

  Historian, Photojournalists

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• There in front of me was the Senator on the floor being held by the busboy. There was nobody else around, and I made my first frame, and I forgot to focus the camera. The second frame was a little more in focus... then just for a second, while everything was open, the busboy looked up, and he had this look in his eye. I made that picture, and then suddenly the whole situation closed in again. And it became bedlam.(On the 1968 shooting of U.S. presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy.)

  Bill Eppridge

  Eye, Focus, Presidential

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• I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

  Bill Eppridge

  Thinking, Photographer, Moments

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• Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that you use at all times.

  Bill Eppridge

  Jobs, Sight, Looks

  Bill Eppridge, Pete Hamill (2008). “A time it was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties”, Harry N. Abrams

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