Camera Quotes

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For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality. — Alfred Stieglitz
The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted… — Lee Friedlander
The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning… — Edward Weston
For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when… — Richard Avedon
I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. I cannot lift her to greater heights. She is… — Richard Avedon
The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the making… — Richard Avedon
There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like an author creates… — Richard Avedon
Camera lies all the time. Itâ€™s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when youâ€¦ the moment… — Richard Avedon
The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It… — Annie Leibovitz
If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I… — Annie Leibovitz
As a young person, and I know itâ€™s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take… — Annie Leibovitz
I think self-portraits are very difficult. Iâ€™ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light happened to be… — Annie Leibovitz
Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and… — Minor White
If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. â€¦ A gnawing burns inside â€¦ to make something of myself… — Minor White
What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity. — Berenice Abbott
I have to be reminded, â€œâ€™Itâ€™s your sonâ€™s birthday party. Bring a camera.â€™ And then, when Iâ€™m there, â€˜Take a picture,â€™ because it doesnâ€™t occur… — Stephen Shore
I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day. — William Eggleston
The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut. — Vannevar Bush
I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors… — Debbie Allen
The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

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