Alfred Eisenstaedt Quotes

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• The important thing is not the camera but the eye.
• I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.
• When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures. Only two color…
• In New York’s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers.
• All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.
• In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.
• With photography, everything is in the eye and these days I feel young photographers are missing the point a bit. People always ask about cameras…
• Today's photographers think differently. Many can't see real light anymore. They think only in terms of strobe - sure, it all looks beautiful but it's…
• I always prefer photographing in available light – or Rembrandt-light I like to call it – so you get the natural modulations of the face.…
• I don’t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film. Buy yards of…
• I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover…
• People will never understand the patience a photographer requires to make a great photograph, all they see is the end result. I can stand in…
• The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘Aaaaah,’ with five vowels when they see it.…
• Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or…
• Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!
• Another picture I hope to be remembered by is this one of the drum major rehearsing at the University of Michigan. It was early in…
• The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject.
• It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would end up throwing…
• My style hasn't changed much in all these sixty years. I still use, most of the time, existing light and try not to push people…
• I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle…

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