Documentaries Quote by W. Eugene Smith Download Open image “I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.” — W. Eugene Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Documentaries Documentary photography Photography Photojournalism Purpose Thinking
[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more. — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share Image
Photojournalism is neither photography or journalism. It has its function but it's not where I see myself: the press is for me just a… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
Photojournalism is photography with more story telling. A single image can be amazing and dramatic. I started out shooting individual images, but I found… — Olivia Arthur Copy Share Image
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history. — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
What is photojournalism? Occasionally, a very unique photo, in which form is precise and rich enough and content has enough resonance, is sufficient in… — Henri Copy Share Image
... photojournalism has its tremendous rewards and it's wonderful work. In what other work can you wander aimlessly with a camera around your neck,… — Larry Towell Copy Share Image
Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
I did it [photojournalism] as something that was really rewarding to do, given the opportunity to express myself about something I cared about, and… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I was after a set of pictures, so that when people looked at them they would say, ‘This is war’-that the people who were… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
What's the best type of light? Why that would be available light... and by available light I mean any damn light is available. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of the creative… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said that photographs… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James Brown recently;… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share Image
Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
I'm in school every day. It depends on what it is that you do with all that free time when I'm not on the… — MC Lyte Copy Share Image
If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them. — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
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