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Cameras Quote by David Hurn

“I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.” quote by David Hurn — Download Open image

“I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.”

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The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography...The reason is that photography is only…

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These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them

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Learn from the best; the second raters have nothing to offer.

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The most important piece of equipment after the camera is a good pair of shoes.

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It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should…

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This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in the medium.…

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For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.

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...one day I was speculating on how I would like to look back on life and I decided I wanted to feel that I…

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I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second. It's very instinctive. What you do is a fraction of a second, it's there and it's not there. But in this fraction of a second comes your past, comes your future, comes your relation with…

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I'm a film guy. I love it. When I read the screenplay, I knew that there would be no HD camera that could achieve the look that I wanted for this film. I wanted it to be dirty, and 16mm provides all of that with the look and the grain. That's what I worked for, and that's what I wanted,…

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters…

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“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or your dancing shoes. Pull out your camera or your computer or your pottery wheel. Today, tonight, after the kids are in bed or when your homework is done, or instead of one more video game or…

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Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that…

My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera.

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Since a camera is something too heavy for women and initially made for men, you need a good cameraman.

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