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“The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you're a moron, you're going to get a really strong photograph.”

People Matter Strong Subjects Photography Photograph Surround Subject Matter Moron

Author:Andy Summers

“One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up in the library, where there happened to be a black and white photography exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg's photographs of the streets of New York. The subject of his photos were exactly what I was painting about.”

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Author:Jose Parla

“I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography.”

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Author:Peter Lindbergh

“I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones, who have drawn too much inspiration from photography and who, over time, have a problem forming their own identity.”

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Author:Peter Lindbergh

“The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.”

Art Artist Interest Photography Art Is Titles Discussion

Author:Peter Lindbergh

“Even in manipulating the images, I would like to do my dailies in a digital way because you can do so many things in that stage that I cannot do in real photography.”

Way Real Can Do Stage Photography Digital

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is completely wiped clean by the madness of man.”

Men World Writing I Can Lost Natural Inspire Photography Madness Clean Natural World

Author:Jason Reeves

“Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.”

People Thinking Art Asks Interest Photography

Author:Peter Lindbergh

“In 1990 I did a story with Helena Christensen about a woman who lives in a trailer in the middle of the desert and finds a little crushed UFO with a martian who has survived the crash. She takes him home, and they fall in love. Later he has to meet with his fellow martians who have arrived to rescue him. It's a sad ending. This was my first truly narrative story and apparently the first narrative story in fashion photography.”

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Author:Peter Lindbergh

“Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.”

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Author:Peter Lindbergh

“And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.”

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Author:John Sexton

“He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.”

Soul Photography Mediums Generous Dedicated

Author:John Sexton

“I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.”

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Author:John Sexton

“I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.”

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Author:John Sexton

“In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.”

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Author:John Sexton

“So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.”

Kids Natural Saws Photography Cameras Inspired Photographer Extensions

Author:John Sexton

“The greatest compliment that I know how to pay another photographer is to say, 'I never would have made that photograph myself. I'm sure glad you did.' You hope along the way that maybe, once in a while, you do that for someone else.”

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Author:John Sexton

“To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you make the exposure, you're always looking backwards in time. I like that aspect of photography.”

Film Photography Aspect Photographer Looking Back Backwards Exposure Exposing Retrospective

Author:John Sexton

“Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of a self-portrait. I think it's impossible for a photographer who is working honestly to keep this from happening.”

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Author:John Sexton

“I think one of the aspects of photography that remains for me is I find the process still frustrating. The counter to that is that it's still very exciting. If you didn't have the frustration, you wouldn't have the excitement. If you didn't have the disappointment, you wouldn't have the magical intoxication of this process working.”

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Author:John Sexton

“"It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the day has a distinct quality, as it fades toward the darkness of evening. After sunset there is a gentle leaving of the light, the air begins to still, and a quiet descends. I see magic in the quiet light of dusk. I feel quiet, yet intense energy in the natural elements of our habitat. A sense of magic prevails. A sense of mystery. It is a time for contemplation, for listening - a time for making photographs. "”

“There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.”

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Author:Ernst Haas

“I just got this new camera. It's very advanced - you don't even need it.”

Needs Photography Cameras

Author:Steven Wright

“My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.”

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Author:Ernst Haas

“Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.”

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Author:Ernst Haas

“You can also see sometimes that the best pictures are the ones where you didn't try so hard, where you were just enjoying the process - and you didn't even know why you were making the picture. It felt right. If someone asked, 'Why are you making this picture?' you probably couldn't describe it very well - and that's why it needs to be a photograph.”

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Author:John Sexton

“The best zoom lens is your legs.”

Photography Legs Lenses Zoom

Author:Ernst Haas

“Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.”

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Author:Ernst Haas

“Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!”

Taken Influence Photography Photographer

Author:John Sexton

“All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.”

Wanted Pain Photography Shots Mood Paris

Author:Ernst Haas

“Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature.”

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Author:Ernst Haas

“You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Photography Cameras

Author:Ernst Haas

“You don’t take pictures, the good ones happen to you.”

Happens Creativity Photography Photographer

Author:Ernst Haas

“You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also give it back. You can put this feeling into a picture. A painter can do it. And a musician can do it and I think a photographer can do that too and that I would call the dreaming with open eyes.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Mean Feelings Dream Eye Can Do Creativity Photography Musician Photographer Painter Atmosphere Within You Open Eyes

Author:Ernst Haas

“Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.”

Photography Transformation Reproduction

Author:Ernst Haas

“I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can”

Photography Tools Photographer Valuable Trash Trash Cans Darkroom

Author:John Sexton

“Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.”

People Has Beens Soul Facts Light Jesus Photography Photographer Exposing

Author:Francis Bacon

“We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.”

Artist Challenges Magic Photography Quitting Mediums Keep Going Never Quit

Author:John Sexton

“I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.”

Lying Artist Secret Mets Photography Photographer

Author:John Sexton

“I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.”

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Author:John Sexton

“I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.”

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Author:John Sexton

“The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.”

I Can Reason Whole Teaching Photography Asking Photographer Fortunate Participants Workshops

Author:John Sexton

“There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent.”

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Author:John Sexton

“Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print.”

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Author:John Sexton

“The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.”

Has Beens Problem Lasts Turns Century Photography Direct Colour

Author:Gabriel Lippmann

“When the object that is produced...the photographic image...has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.”

Matter Eye Ability Objects Tears Inspire Photography Breaths Photographer

Author:John Sexton

“A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for my eyes only, and they are no good. I find the single most valuable tool in the darkroom is my trash can - that's where most of my prints end up.”

Needs Ends Facts Eye Photography Tools Photographer Valuable Print Editors Trash Trash Cans Darkroom

Author:John Sexton

“Many photographers are consumed with the idea of making beautiful contact sheets. I am far more interested in making the best final print I can.”

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Author:John Sexton

“I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes a photograph unique relative to other two-dimensional media.”

Two Media Photography Unique Photographer Photograph Surface Relative

Author:John Sexton

“Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do.”

Needs Levels Photography Photographer Whatever It Takes Tactile Gelatin

Author:John Sexton

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