Historian Quote by Bill Eppridge Download Open image “You are not just a photojournalist, you're a historian.” — Bill Eppridge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Historian History Photojournalists
If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist. — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
To be a photojournalist takes experience, skill, endurance, energy, salesmanship, organization, wheedling, climbing, gatecrashing, etc. - plus an eye and patience. — Ruth Orkin Copy Share Image
I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images…We pass… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more. — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share Image
As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in order to… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
Photography can be a powerful instrument for change, and photojournalists can tell stories that make a difference. — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources. What is underrepresented are those "metaphotographers" who can make sense of the billions of images being made and can provide context and authenticate them. We need curators to filter this overabundance more than we need new legions of photographers. — Fred Ritchin Copy Share
If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist. That was my other dream job. — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history and relationship… — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
There in front of me was the Senator on the floor being held by the busboy. There was nobody else around, and I made… — Bill Eppridge Copy Share Image
I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer. — Bill Eppridge Copy Share Image
Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that you use… — Bill Eppridge Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been… — James A. Garfield Copy Share
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image