Bill Brandt Quotes

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• 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 the…
• I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on…
• Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.
• Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.
• I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.
• But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover this,…
• I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in…
• By temperament I am not unduly excitable and certainly not trigger-happy. I think twice before I shoot and very often do not shoot at all.…
• If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to…
• It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or ruins his pictures.…
• Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!
• When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what the…
• No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.
• Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not…
• Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be…
• 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 the…
• A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
• It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an…
• And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or…
• Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for…

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