A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere. — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
The vital elements are often momentary, change-sent things ... a gleam of light on water, a trail of smoke from a passing train, a cat crossing the threshold. Sometimes they are a matter of luck, sometimes of patience, waiting for… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried! — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere. — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
The vital elements are often momentary, change-sent things ... a gleam of light on water, a trail of smoke from a passing train, a… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or ruins his… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time. — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others. Photography is still a very new medium and everything is… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
