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“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
“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.” – Ernst Haas Ernest Haas is considered
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” -Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1969 50 years ago, yesterday, human beings landed on another body in our solar system
“We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.” -William Anders On Christmas Eve in 2008, Apollo 8 was
“Something in my head gets turned on by seeing a woman’s looks really come together with the right makeup, the right hairstyle, the right clothes… it’s exciting to see a
“Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.” -Wynn Bullock Wynn Bullock started out as a singer. He was a chorus member
“A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.” -Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange trained to be a teacher when, in 1913, she decided to be a
“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 Sometimes,
For me, a photograph is most successful when it doesn’t answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired. I like each picture that I take to be
“There have been many beautiful women since Marilyn Monroe. But who is there that has her total magic? Nobody has that vulnerability anymore.” -Bert Stern Bert Stern has been called
Regardless of the type of photography you focus on, Photofocus is here as a helpful and educational resource for the aspiring and professional photographer. Our goal is to assist in your success as an artist.
