It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph. — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is very interested in people and in travel; these things plus his precise feeling for geometrical relationships determine the… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
There is no recipe for good layout, what must be maintained is a feeling of change and contrast. A layout man should be simple… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the picture or through the human interest of the situation photographed or by calling our attention to some commonplace but fascinating thing we have never noticed before or it can be achieved by looking at an everyday thing in… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share
It is the photographer's decision at the two levels of seeing the picture - when it is shot and when it is chosen and… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph. — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is very interested… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's Bazaar and… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
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