Street Photography Quotes - Page 2

• Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, People, Boss

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• If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Saws, Photographer

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• The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

  Robert Frank

  Photography, Eye, Black And White

  Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

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• Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Home, Cameras

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• It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

  David Bailey

  Photography, Art, Learning

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• When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!

  Ted Grant

  Photography, Black And White, Color

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• Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Touching, Feelings

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• I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Looks, Photographer

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• Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

  Aaron Siskind

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

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• Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

  Joe McNally

  Photography, Cameras, Location

  Joe McNally (2008). “The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters”, p.53, Pearson Education

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• My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

  Steve McCurry

  Inspirational, Photography, Insightful

  "Steve McCurry’s Photographs Of His Travels Will Give You The Chills" by Rebecca Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2015.

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• Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it.

  Thomas Leuthard

  Photography, Fishing, Eating

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• Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.

  Thomas Leuthard

  Photography, Art, Forgive Me

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• When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.

  Robert Frank

  Photography, People, Looks

  Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

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• During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Too Late, Leica

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• You don't make a photograph just with a camera

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

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• I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Self, Looks

  Lee Friedlander (1970). “Self Portrait”

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• I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.

  Barbara Kruger

  Photography, Might, Objectifying

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and portrait photography, are a little more applied, more mixed in the with the history of painting and other art forms.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Photography, Art, Believe

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• I have always felt that a lot of the most interesting work, not just mine but other people's, falls into [the] nether area, somewhere between the worlds of documentary and photojournalism (two very vague words) and the world of art. I think a lot of street photography falls into this nether area.

  Alex Webb

  Photography, Art, Fall

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