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Photographing Quotes by James Nachtwey
- I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.
- And I realized that many of the people I was photographing might have been the very ones who had committed the massacres that I had…
- I'm a messenger. I don't want people to be concerned about me. I want them to be concerned about the people in the pictures. I…
More Photographing Quotes
- You adapt to who you're photographing. — David Bailey
- I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to… — David Bailey
- Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
- It doesn't matter if you're photographing a porter in a market in Marrakech or you're photographing the king of Morroco. You have… — Albert Watson
- To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and… — Dorothea Lange
- I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice. — Josef Koudelka
- I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting… — William Albert Allard
- I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After… — Mary Ellen Mark
- I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice. — Minor White
- I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's… — Mary Ellen Mark
- I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a… — Joel Meyerowitz
- Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man. — Edward Weston