Photographer Quotes - Page 17

• I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Growing, Theme

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• I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get it at all. It's not accessible to all people at the same level.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Thinking, People

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• The most important thing is to try and enjoy life because you never know when it will be gone. If you wake up in the morning and have a choice between doing the laundry and taking a walk in the park, go for the walk. You'd hate to die and realize you had spent your last day doing the laundry.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Morning, Hate

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• I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Texas, News, Texan

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 15, 2001.

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• Laugh, love, dream, strive, smile, feel, joy, look, try, fail, read, walk, search, share, help, work, fun, learn, retry, sweat, cry, rest, wait, fear, hope, trust, pride... when we have lived all of these, our photography might stop being a record of what our camera sees and become an expression of what we as photographers feel.

  Steve Coleman

  Dream, Photography, Fun

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• Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

  Ray Metzker

  Paradox, Victim, Tracking

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• This idea of helping the next generation is a very intrinsic part of photojournalism. We need to continue to build this new group of photographers that come in and tell these stories.

  Ron Haviv

  Ideas, Groups, Needs

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• I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

  Duane Michals

  Photography, Thinking, Enough

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• The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.

  Duane Michals

  Believe, Eye, Focus

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• I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.

  Richard Avedon

  Ideas, People

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• One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Wish, All Time, All Time Favorite

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• I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Photography, Years, Tools

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• If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Doctors, People, Done

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• Good photography is unpretentious.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Good Photography

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• Do we know what we look like? Not really.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Self, Looks

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• When we hold a photo negative up to the light all objects are reversed. Black is white, white is black. Moreover, the character lines of any face in the picture are not clear. Once placed into the developing solution, what photographers call "the latent image" is revealed in the print-darkness is turned to light; and, lo, we have a beautiful picture.

  Catherine Marshall

  Beautiful, Character, White

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• When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

  Marina Warner

  Young, Bookworms, Models

  "What I see in the mirror" by Marina Warner, www.theguardian.com. November 02, 2012.

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• As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their products, then I won't go anywhere until they're done with me.

  Linda Evangelista

  Thinking, Long, Dresses

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• I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.

  Alexa Chung

  Clothes, Creative, Lovely

  "Women of Britain - your designers need you!" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2009.

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• If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.

  Eve Arnold

  Stars, Two, Long

  Eve Arnold (2002). “Film Journal”, p.8, A&C Black

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• Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.

  Eve Arnold

  Moving, Skills, Musician

  Eve Arnold (2002). “Film Journal”, p.16, A&C Black

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• I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won't tell you how much I got them for - let's just say it was a lot.

  Melanie Brown

  Art, Two, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What's been important with Flickr is the community that's been there from the beginning and the serious photographers that are there creating and sharing great content. If we lose that at some point then I think we have potential issues, but so far we've been able to do a really good job of maintaining that.

  David Filo

  Jobs, Thinking, Creating

  "Taking an open-minded approach". Interview with Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2009.

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• I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Thinking

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• My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Ideas, Seeing

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