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There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an hours… — Unknown Author
Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is… — John Berger
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… — David Hurn
The main thing is to study pictures and stop listening to the pontifictaions of photographers. Photographers aren't oracles of wisdom. If they're good photographers, then… — Elliott Erwitt
You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business. — Elliott Erwitt
Images of people, cities, and landscapes from the air tell a unique story about our personal space and how we relate to one another. I've… — Vincent Laforet
I now measure my growth as a photographer in terms of the degrees to which I am aware of, have developed my sense of, and… — Wynn Bullock
I still think photographers should be lashed out at. They should be put in a cage where you can poke them with a stick for… — Sean Penn
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture. — Robert Adams
When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must… — Alexey Brodovitch
The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is very interested in… — Alexey Brodovitch
It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do this his pictures… — Alexey Brodovitch
Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be used for inspiration… — Alexey Brodovitch
Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's Bazaar and at… — Alexey Brodovitch
It is the photographer's decision at the two levels of seeing the picture - when it is shot and when it is chosen and printed… — Alexey Brodovitch
What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual expression… — Alexey Brodovitch
The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better. — Minor White
Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography. — Ralph Steiner
A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar. — Freeman Patterson
One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Essentially what you're doing is collaborating with the photographer to create an image that reflects the fashion you're trying to capture and also hold a… — Hamish Bowles
Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme. — John Szarkowski
There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They… — Gordon Willis
These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal
To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to be unable to… — Unknown Author

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