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Photographer Quotes by Bill Brandt
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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.…
- 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.
- 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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- Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love. — David Bailey
- I never set out to be a photographer. — David Bailey
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- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams
- Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — Ansel Adams
- A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams
- A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams