“Jerusalem - a divided city, where demonstrations for and against various issues occur regularly. One day, during an Orthodox demonstration against autopsies, I happened to click a few frames while a young man pushed his hamsa (spread hand) into my camera, which is seen by some as 'the evil eye.' As it happened, it was the tail end of my roll of film and the image is actually a double exposure. This taught me that in spite of your careful framing, chance occurrences create the most interesting images.” MenEndsHandsEyeFilmYoungEvilChanceInterestingCitiesIssuesHappenedTaughtOne DayCamerasCarefulVariousSpreadYoung ManSpiteOrthodoxDividedTailsExposureDemonstrationMost InterestingClicksJerusalemFramingAutopsyEvil Eye Author:Micha Bar-Am
“I like to try to shoot in the city in a way that allows the city to go about its business while we're shooting, and that's always a challenge because unfortunately people on the street don't know not to look in the camera or interact with the actors.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingLooksActorsChallengesCitiesStreetsCamerasShooting Author:Noah Baumbach
“I love just seeing shots of New York inside of a fictional movie that are not controlled. I do not like shots with extras, I have to say. I don't mind extras in other scenes, but I love New York City streets just as they look. I don't even care if someone looks at the camera. It doesn't bother me.” IfsMindLooksCareCitiesSeeingStreetsNew YorkSceneShotsCamerasBotherExtrasControlledNew York CityI Love New YorkCity Streets Author:Greta Gerwig
“Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.” IfsShouldHappensViewsCitiesCasesGoneStreetsCrimeFiguresCamerasGood ThingsVery GoodLondonTerroristPettyInner CityPersonal Views Author:Bill Gates
“The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so.” PeopleMenMindHas BeensRunningTodayCitiesModernWeaponsDestructionTownsCamerasInstrumentsPhotographFactoriesFrighteningWarfareRuinedSpyBombingMappingForerunners Author:John Steinbeck
“I could take a cow and implant a camera in it and let it amble around the city or in its own domain (I say a cow because a human being I would not trust). If the camera was programmed to go off at an indeterminate series of moments, the samplings would be fantastic.” IfsHumansMomentsWould BeHuman BeingsCitiesCamerasSeriesFantasticCowsDomainImplantsSampling Author:Frederick Sommer
“In Slumdog Millionaire when you are immersed in the point of view of children in the slum and the bustle of the city, the handheld camerawork is amazing. A handheld camera is perfect for establishing point-of-view and for instilling the feeling that you are there.” ChildrenFeelingsPerfectViewsCitiesCamerasPoint Of ViewMillionaireSlumsBustleSlumdog Millionaire Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“I take my camera pretty much everywhere and try to get the most diverse photos possible, since I get to travel to all the greatest cities in the country and see iconic architecture and things like that. I also like racing photos - like motorcycles, cars, stuff like that.” TryingCountryStuffCitiesCarCamerasArchitectureRacingDiverseMotorcycleIconic Author:C. J. Wilson
“If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity with the city. It has some wonderful locations and it is devastatingly vast and huge. Central Park looks amazing on camera.” IfsLooksFilmCitiesWonderfulNew YorkHugeDoctorsCamerasParksIf I CouldEpisodesLocationDoctor WhoAffinityCentral Park Author:Matt Smith
“The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per second. It was on the S-Bahn that she felt least abandoned, as if the act of travelling turned back the clock, and brought her nearer to the future she had lost.” IfsLostFeltCitiesCamerasClockFiftyAbandonedRailwayScalpels Author:Philip Sington