Camera and photography Quote by Edward Steichen Download Open image “A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.” — Edward Steichen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Camera and photography Cameras Great photography Inspirational Inspirational photography Made Painting Photo shoots Photograph Photographer Photography Photography by photographers Portraits Sides
“That’s different,” I said. And it was. A portrait is a picture where somebody gets to choose what you look like. How they want… — Carol Rifka Brunt Copy Share Image
The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible. — Thomas Struth Copy Share Image
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth. — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are. — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows,… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
That nature only is good when it shall not do unto another whatever is not good for its own self — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and… — Ken Rockwell Copy Share Image
The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle. — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of… — Susan Meiselas Copy Share Image
I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport. — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do… — Arnold Newman Copy Share Image
