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Philippe Halsman has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.
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Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most…
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A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of…
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I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a…
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A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them…
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When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so…
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In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and…
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I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a…
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Marilyn was history's most phenomenal love goddess.
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The head of the photographer is more important than his camera
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Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot…
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I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am…
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I…
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Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I…
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Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.
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I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light…
— Annie Leibovitz
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All photographs are self-portraits.
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A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them…
— Philippe Halsman
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I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in…
— Gustav Klimt
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Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less…
— N.D. Wilson
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My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of…
— Nan Goldin
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Bruheem kol dumuyay eloha! Blessed are all God's self-portraits.
— Richard Zimler
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