David Hurn Quotes

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• There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no…
• Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create…
• I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.
• My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an exaggerated sense of…
• This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in the medium. And…
• ...one day I was speculating on how I would like to look back on life and I decided I wanted to feel that I was…
• I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time…
• I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity…
• You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography.
• Learn from the best; the second raters have nothing to offer.
• The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in…
• In previous ages the word 'art' was used to cover all forms of human skill. The Greeks believed that these skills were given by the…
• It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should be…
• These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them
• The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography...The reason is that photography is only a…
• The most important piece of equipment after the camera is a good pair of shoes.
• For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.

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