February 2012
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I am a photographer” is an open-sesame to places and people I would otherwise...
– David Hurn 58/365
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Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion...
– Leon Trotsky 57/365
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What I want above all in photography is to compose the image as I do with...
– Florence Henri 56/365
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…a good photograph is pretty obvious. It tells you a story very quickly....
– Elliott Erwitt 55/365
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The photographer cannot be a passive spectator; he can be really lucid only if...
– Henri Cartier-Bresson 54/365
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Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.
– David Alan Harvey 53/365
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When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no...
– Aleksandar Hemon 52/365
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Photographs should be symbolic rather than descriptive (…) they should...
– Erich Hartmann 51/365
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A photograph is a collision between a person with a camera and reality. The...
– Charles Harbutt 50/365
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Taking photographs is more a way of life than a means of making money. I am...
– Paul Hill 49/365
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Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what...
– Matt Hardy 48/365
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I have observed, and I have been involved, but most important, i have...
– James Helmer 47/365
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Dreadful things bring dreadful pictures.
– Bert Hardy 46/365
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Documentary photography is the presentation or representation of actual fact in...
– David Hurn 45/365
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As far as I knew, he had never taken a photograph before, and the summit of...
– Edmund Hillary 44/365
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If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the...
– Anonymous 43/365
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Only a fraction of the camera’s possibilities interests me - the marvelous...
– Henri Cartier-Bresson 42/365
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The decisive moment? That’s when Cartier-Bresson pointed to a frame on his...
– Alan Zenreich 41/365
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Stranger: “That is beautiful child you have there.”
Mother:...
– Anonymous 40/365
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Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four...
– Garry Winogrand 39/365
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I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.
– Alfred Eisenstaedt 38/365
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We must respect the atmosphere which surrounds the human being.
– Henri Cartier-Bresson 37/365
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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
– Garry Winogrand 36/365
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How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change...
– Anonymous 35/365
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Of all forms of expression, photography is the only one which seizes the instant...
– Henri Cartier-Bresson 34/365
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