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“I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.” – James Nachtwey James Nachtwey
“I am at war with the obvious.” -William Eggleston The godfather of color photography The first major museum to mount an exhibition of color photographs — the Museum of Modern
“Only photography has been able to divide human life. into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.” –Eadweard Muybridge Landscapes Eadweard Muybridge began
“I kind of hated modeling, but somehow I did it for 10 years. I was not really the exhibitionist type. It’s hard psychologically to be a model. And mostly people
“Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.” – Garry Winogrand Garry Winogrand “street” photographer Garry Winogrand’s interest in photography began while he
“The simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, there’s a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness that occurs. Like, I could walk from here
“Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.” – Andreas Gursky Fine art photographer Andreas Gursky didn’t become a serious photographer,
“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.” ― Robert Frank Robert Frank is best known for his 83 black and white documentary photographs carefully curated from his take
“Well, I suppose nothing is meant to last forever. We have to make room for other people. It’s a wheel – you get on, you go to the end, and
“If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say ‘secrets.’ As a child, I always had a secret world and
“It doesn’t matter if you’re photographing a porter in a market in Marrakech or you’re photographing the king of Morocco. You have the same sympathetic approach to everybody. You have
“Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.” ― Walker Evans Walker Evans
“Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a person’s face.” – Steve McCurry India Graduating with honors
“To extract from a life what has shaped it along the way in an elusive exercise. Every experience has a hand in it. It is formed alone, with sudden brilliant
“When you fail you learn, and when you learn you grow, and when you grow you move closer to success.” -Lindsay Adler Photographic whirlwind Lindsay Adler is in her almost
“Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred
“A good news photographer, particularly in magazine work, must fill some rather awesome qualifications. He, or she, must have a reporter’s nose for news, a movie director’s sense of the
“I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like
“To me, pictures are like blintzes — ya gotta get ’em while they’re hot.” -Weegee Weegee, the photographer Arthur Fellig’s pseudonym is the phonetic spelling of the Ouija board. He
“I have been a witness and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.” -James Nachtwey James Nachtwey has
“For me, the single word that best sums him up as a photographer is ‘bold’ ” -Philip B. Kunhart, Jr., editor, Life magazine describing Co Rentmeester Jacobus “Co” Rentmeester was
