On Photography: Steve McCurry, 1950-present
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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’.
“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
“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
“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
“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.”
“For me, the single word that best sums him up as a photographer is ‘bold’ ” -Philip B. Kunhart, Jr., editor, Life magazine describing Co
“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.” – Ernst
“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
“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