Cameras Quotes - Page 38

• After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do.

  Brassai

  Years, Twenties

  Brassaï (1968). “Brassaï”

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• You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

  Dorothea Lange

  Shoes, People, Body

  Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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• I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

  Dorothea Lange

  Pride, Important, Spirit

  Dorothea Lange, Keith F. Davis, Kelle A. Botkin (1995). “The photographs of Dorothea Lange”, Harry N. Abrams

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• For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Book, Mean, Expression

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• Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

  John Baldessari

  Photography, Worst, Happened

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• If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky.

  Don King

  Kings, America, Boxing

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• The UN Declaration of Human Rights laid down what any person might reasonably expect, yet there are remarkably few people who enjoy these rights. With cameras in the hands of activists and meaningful distribution of those images, we will witness what really goes on in this world and hopefully want to change it.

  Peter Gabriel

  Meaningful, Hands, Rights

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• I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

  Abel Ferrara

  Baseball, Guitar, Creative

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 27, 2002.

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• My talent lies in the fact that I cannot touch a camera without expressing myself.

  Andre Kertesz

  Lying, Facts, Talent

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• Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty

  Walker Evans

  Should, Polaroids, Sixty

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• The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

  Ansel Adams

  Photographer

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• For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Giving, Personality, Special

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• The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.

  Lee Friedlander

  Wall, Mirrors, Tongue

  Lee Friedlander (1970). “Self Portrait”

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• The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the making of a portrait is all about.

  Richard Avedon

  Portraits, Way, Photographer

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• There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like an author creates a character. She understood photography, and she also understood what makes a great photograph. She related to it as if she were giving a performance. She gave more to the still camera than any actress-any woman- I've ever photographed.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Character, Giving

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• Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you… the moment you’ve made a choice, you’re lying about something larger. Lying is an ugly word. I don’t mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

  Richard Avedon

  Lying, Writing, Mean

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• The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I was going to live with this thing, I was going to have to think about what that meant. There were not going to be any pictures without it.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Determination, Heart, Thinking

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• As a young person, and I know it’s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn’t do normally if I was just by myself.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Believe, Shy, Looks

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• I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light happened to be available. I’d want it to be very graphic – about darkness and light. No one else should be there, but I’m scared to do it by myself. I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. The whole idea of a self-portrait is strange. I’m so strongly linked to how I see through the camera that to get to the other side of it would be difficult. It would be as if I were taking a photograph in the dark.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Dark, Thinking, Light

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• Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.

  Minor White

  Dream, Eye, Space

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• If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself worth giving.

  Minor White

  Self Worth, Giving, Ifs

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• What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

  Berenice Abbott

  Eye, Photographer, Fidelity

  "New Guide to Better Photography".

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• I have to be reminded, “’It’s your son’s birthday party. Bring a camera.’ And then, when I’m there, ‘Take a picture,’ because it doesn’t occur to me to use it as this memorializing thing.

  Stephen Shore

  Party, Son, Use

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• The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut.

  Vannevar Bush

  Littles, Hounds, Walnuts

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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• I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?

  Debbie Allen

  Needs, Looks, Actors

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