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It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because read more
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 ordinary.
You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.
You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, read more
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but read more
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable read more
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first read more
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
