The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler. — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air. — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
“Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind. — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
I never took it upon myself to change the world. And those contemporaries of mine who were going around falling for the… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
It is easy to imagine fantasy as physical and myth as real. We do it almost every moment. We do this as… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Detachment, lack of sentimentality, originality, a lot of things that sound rather empty. I know what they mean. Let's say, "visual impact"… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda;… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage,… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise, and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm… — Walker Evans Copy Share
Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to get it… — Walker Evans Copy Share
What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced unconsciously and… — Walker Evans Copy Share
Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach. — Walker Evans Copy Share
I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered I didn't need to. If the… — Walker Evans Copy Share
It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. — Walker Evans Copy Share
I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white… — Walker Evans Copy Share
Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas… — Walker Evans Copy Share
Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to… — Walker Evans Copy Share
With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I… — Walker Evans Copy Share
The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler. — Walker Evans Copy Share
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