Cameras Quotes - Page 40

• Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most

  Philippe Halsman

  Mother, Children, People

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• In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One only has to snap it with the camera.

  Philippe Halsman

  Real, Fall, Self

  Philippe Halsman (1981). “The Mask Falls: Psychological Portraits by Philippe Halsman : a Retrospective Collection of Images from the Photographer's Studio, to be Sold by Public Auction, Friday, November 13, 1981, at 7:00 P.m. at Harris Auction Galleries”

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• When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, 'Jump,' no one asked how high. People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent that physical ability and personal decorum allowed. In that airborne instant Mr. Halsman clicked the shutter. He called his method jumpology.
  The idea of having people jump for the camera can seem like a gimmick, but it is telling that jumpology shares a few syllables with psychology. As Halsman, who died in 1979, said, 'When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping, and the mask falls, so that the real person appears.'

  Philippe Halsman

  Real, Fall, Ideas

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• I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being.

  Philippe Halsman

  Trying, Actresses, Lenses

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• Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot make them drop the mask, at least for a moment, so he can capture on his film their real, undistorted personality and character.

  Philippe Halsman

  Real, Character, Self

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• I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am making.

  Philippe Halsman

  Eye, Looks, Symbols

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• What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ?
  George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Photography, Ambition, Buttons

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• I raised my right hand and placed my left on the Quran, which was being held by my wife and mom. Suddenly, I was blinded by a cascade of camera flashes.

  Keith Ellison

  Mom, Hands, Wife

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• The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them.

  L. Neil Smith

  Successful, Light, Sight

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• Photography to me is an addiction. I get jittery after a couple of days without a camera. Everyone who knows me says I'm happiest when I'm shooting.

  Rankin

  Photography, Couple, Addiction

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• Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Needs, World

  "Bill Gates And President Bill Clinton On The Nsa, Safe Sex, And American Exceptionalism". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. September 23, 2012.

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• Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.

  Wayne Rooney

  Inspirational, Years, Games

  "Wayne Rooney: I am not a diver". www.mirror.co.uk. September 3, 2009.

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• The camera is the eye of history.

  Mathew Brady

  Eye

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• People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

  Cutting, People, Enemy

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• The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.

  Edvard Munch

  Photography, Taken, Heaven

  "Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist".

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• Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening her violet eyes, she takes us into the liquid realm of emotion, which she inhabits by Pisces intuition. Richard Burton said that Taylor showed him how to act for the camera. Economy and understatement are essential. At her best, Elizabeth Taylor simply is. An electric, erotic charge vibrates the space between her face and the lens. It is an extra-sensory, pagan phenomenon.

  Camille Paglia

  Eye, Film History, Space

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.16, Vintage

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• Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Jobs, Different, Information

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• It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing. To have them realize without saying so, that it was up to them to give me whatever they wanted to give me . . . if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

  Eve Arnold

  People, Giving, Important

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• I never knew anyone who came close to Marilyn in natural ability to use both photographer and still camera. She was
  special in this, and for me there has been no one like her before or after. She has remained the measuring rod by which I have - unconsciously - judged
  other subjects.

  Eve Arnold

  Special, Use, Like Her

  Eve Arnold (1987). “Marilyn Monroe--an appreciation”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.

  Martin Parr

  Trying, Shooting, Easy

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• Having a hearing is educational. Having a hearing with television cameras is useful. Having a hearing with two rows of television cameras is Heaven.

  Tim Wirth

  Educational, Two, Heaven

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• I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.

  Michel Gondry

  Team, Littles, Comedy

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• When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what the camera was seeing. I interfered very little, and the lens produced anatomical images and shapes which my eyes had never observed.

  Bill Brandt

  Beauty, Eye, Lenses

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Photographer, Best Things

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.30, New Riders

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• It's a lot easier to take pictures if you always have the camera with you.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Photographer, Easier

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.56, New Riders

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