Favorite Quotations
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Photography, 2
Self Matters
A photographer is past pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism. ~ Susan Sontag If anyone gets in my way when I’m making a picture, I become irrational. I’m never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do—only that I want that picture. ~ Margaret Bourke-White It's important to let your subjects be themselves. ~ Herb Ritts
It's hard not to see that a photograph is an act of aggression... You're stopping people from the flow of their lives, you're cropping them from the space in which they live and have their being, you're juxtaposing them to something that they didn't know they were next to." ~ John Rosenthal, The Sun One of the joys of photography is that you never know what will come at you from around the next corner. ~ Tom Ang If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy. ~ Richard Avedon The best zoon lens is your legs. ~ Ernst Haas Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. ~ Robert Frank
"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs." ~ Ansel Adams