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A picture is worth a thousand words; a slide show is both.

Anonymous

A photograph can be as striking and as haunting as a great painting or a fine poem.

Anonymous

Handbook annual, 1988.

If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event...what kind of film would you use?

Anonymous

#Joke #funny

Photography teaches that how well you see has nothing to do with how well you see.

Anonymous

Once photography enters your bloodstream, it's like a disease.

Anonymous

Never show a customer two prints of different density. He will ask you to print a third with a density between the two.

Anonymous

Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it was, they would have more to say.

Anonymous

The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer.

Anonymous

The type of photographs you make, the subjects you single out, reveal the person inside of you. How close you get to your subjects reveals how close you want to get.

Anonymous

That a horse rushing along at the rate of a mile in one and two thirds of a minute (more than 17 yards in a second) should be seized by photographic art so as to show every limb well and clearly delineated would have seemed wonderful indeed to the early professors of that art.

Anonymous

Editor, Knowledge, April 14, 1882

Everything I take a picture of, I try to think of it as a new invention for someone to see. If it comes out perfect it is because I put my heart into it. And if the viewer likes it, it is because his or her heart and emotions accepted it.

Anonymous

When we care, we will not forget. The picture in our head or the vivid printed picture will remind us. Without care, we would not remember, only see.

Anonymous

Pictures hold life's experiences. And I feel that with every experience you learn something. Therefore, you learn something with every picture you take.

Anonymous

When I walk around my little world I observe the oddities, the fun of life in the middle of harsh reality. I think one can laugh in pain. Maybe this is what we need to pull us out of the absurdity of it all. I always thought how strange it is that one can find beauty even in the most horrible images. I care for what I photograph. I make love with my eyes through the viewfinder. I caress the image on that piece of paper as it appears like magic, a ray of light emerging from total darkness.

Anonymous

We capture your memories forever.

Anonymous

Eastman Kodak slogan

#slogan #advertisement #memory #kodak

The pictures you want tomorrow, you have to take today.

Anonymous

Kodak advertisement

#advertisement #picture #kodak

You don't take a photography. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.

Anonymous

Pentax advertisement

#advertisement #Pentax

John Sheckler, a former photographer for the Standard Times in New Bedford, Massachusetts, said this when asked how many photographers does it take to screw in a light bulb. - "Only one. However, it takes two editors and three reporters to decide if the bulb should be turned clockwise or counter clockwise or just shoved in."

Anonymous

#Joke #funny #light #reporter

When Jack London had his portrait made by the noted San Francisco photographer Arnold Genthe, London began the encounter with effusive praise for the photographic art of his friend and fellow bohemian, Genthe. "you must have a wonderful camera...It must be the best camera in the world...You must show me your camera." Genthe then used his standard studio camera to make what has since become a classic picture of Jack London. When the sitting was finished, Genthe could not contain himself: "I have read your books, Jack, and I think they are important works of art. You must have a wonderful typewriter."

Anonymous

#Joke #funny #art #camera #portrait

First Person : "Is that camera fully automatic?" Second Person : "No. You have to take the film to the chemist!"

Anonymous

#Joke #funny #camera #film

If an old man asks a young girl for a date...
That's his business.
If the young girl accepts...
That's her business.
If the old man and the girl decide to marry...
That's their business.
However, if they want great wedding photographs...
THAT'S MY BUSINESS!!!

Anonymous

- sign on studio wall

Synonym for the word “photographer” shooter, camera bug, lensmen, lenswomen, send out a camera.

Anonymous

Professional photographer's survival guide by Charles E. Rotkin

ISBN: 0817454098 Page: 4 This book is available from Amazon

A photograph is worth a thousand words - but which thousand words?

Anonymous

To see, to record and to comment. The essence of documentary is the communication not of imagined things but of real things only.

Anonymous

Photographic portraiture is the best feature of the Fine Arts for the million {sic} that the ingenuity of man has yet devised. It has in this sense swept away many of the illiberal distinctions of rank and wealth, so that the poor man who possesses but a few shillings can command as perfect a lifelike portrait of his wife or child as Sir Thomas Lawrence painted for the most distinguished Sovereigns of Europe.

Anonymous

Editorial, The Photographic News, London, 1861

A Concise History of Photography by Helmut Gernsheim

ISBN: 0486251284 Page: 119 This book is available from Amazon

Photography is a medium that captures a specific event at a specific time in a specific space.

Anonymous

Learn from the mistakes of others, because you won't have time to make them all yourself.

Anonymous

Chinese proverb

Success is what happens when 10,000 hours of preparation meet with one moment of opportunity.

Anonymous

[Win Parks] was really alive only when he was looking through the lens. He existed in a world of fantasy, whether before such fairy castles as this Islamic mosque in Istanbul, or anywhere. The colors he loved most were soft ones. He lived and breathed through a camera, and preferred muted days..

Anonymous

A recollection about Win Parks; Winfield Parks - "Enthusiasm is the key."

I've noticed in my photography that I do a lot better when I'm on vacation. I'm more relaxed and true to my own senses. I really think that's the only route to pure happiness. Letting go of rules.

Anonymous

It is best that a photographer not simply take a picture. A photographer has a responsibility to share a visual experience with others by every possible means.

Anonymous

A tear contains an ocean. A photographer is aware of the tiny moments in a person's life that reveal greater truths.

Anonymous

A shutter only clicks quickly after a sensitive heart has felt the subject a long time.

Anonymous

That which matters most is more than f-stops and lenses, more than pens and papers, more than notes and strings, more than knives and clay. That which matters most is a child's laugh, a lover's hug, an open heart.

Anonymous

The truth is in all things. Weston found truth in a bed pan.

Anonymous

Photographers are like the wolves in the wild whose presence slips silently into the background. These journalists record the events as observers, marking them for history.

Anonymous

f8 and being there.

Anonymous

I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn't that good.

Anonymous

A photo no longer tells the truth. It suggests just one possibilty.

Anonymous

Photokina 2000

...like staring at an anonymous nineteenth-century sepia photograph you pick up in a junk store, wondering at the face looking out at you from under the funny hairdo. To ask who she is hopeless now because all the connections, every friend, every relative, even every acquaintance is dead and gone.

Anonymous

The amateur is, presumably, a man of more cultivated education and greater leisure than the professional photographer, and may reasonably be expected to have a keener sense of the aesthetic principles, and a more educated knowledge of the history and science of art than his professional brother - better skilled though the latter may be in the technique of his art.

Anonymous

An article appearing in "Amateur Photographer", 27 March 1885

Some photographs make a statement others ask a question. Some people like the obvious others like ambiguity. Both types of images and both types of people are correct, just different.

Anonymous

There are three phases to awareness: to look, to see, and to perceive. A camera looks. A mind sees. A heart perceives.

Anonymous

T'isn't the camera at all, 'tis the fella behind the camera.

Anonymous

Stop babbling and just take good pictures.

Anonymous

Take off the lens cap, stupid.

Anonymous

Have the time of your life but be careful who sees the negatives.

Anonymous

"How to Take Great Photographs - and What to do If You're Caught."

A photographer does not operate a camera in order to merely take pictures. Photographic work is always personal. A photograph reveals the photographer.

Anonymous

Through constant practice you will become so skilled technically that you will no longer need to think consciously of the camera's operation. At that point you will break the machine wall between you and the person photographed.

Anonymous

A photograph is just a picture if it doesn't say anything.

Anonymous

Amateurs talk about equipment. Professionals talk about photos.

Anonymous

The quickest way to make money at photography is to sell your camera.

Anonymous

#joke #funny #camera

The weight of words. The shock of photos.

Anonymous

Paris-Match, advertisement.

The pictures you want tomorrow, you have to take today.

Anonymous

Kodak advertisement

Love for photography. Eat sleep and breathe it. Become a photograph.

Anonymous

Canon slogan 1989

#canon #advertisement #slogan

MINOLTA - When you are the camera and the camera is you.

Anonymous

#advertisement #Minolta #camera

You don’t take a photography. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.

Anonymous

Pentax advertisement

You press the button and we do the rest.

Anonymous

Kodak advertisement

#advertisement #kodak #button

If you did manage to get any good shots, they will be ruined when someone inadvertently opens the darkroom door and all of the dark leaks out.

Anonymous

- Murphy's Law on Photography, The Third Law of Photography

The world's coming to an end! ...Quick, grab your camera!

Anonymous

You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.

Anonymous

from a movie.

Do not concern yourself with the questions, "What is art?" or "Who is an artist?" Everything is art. If what you see and do comes from your heart, you are an artist.

Anonymous

Your equipment does not matter as long as you are comfortable with it. Comfortable is an important word, It is the opposite of self-conscious.

Anonymous

It is not enough to be a good photographer. You also need to be a good person who takes pictures.

Anonymous

Our eyes are shooting millions of frames a day. We know we're selective because we can recall only a few images the next day, and even less thereafter.

Anonymous

#frames #image

A picture is worth a thousand words, but a thousand words cant describe a good picture.

Anonymous

Any one who knows what the worth of family affection is among the lower classes, and who has seen the array of little portraits stuck over a laborer's fireplace will perhaps feel with me that in counteracting the tendencies, social and industrial, which every day are sapping the healthier family affections, the sixpenny photograph is doing more for the poor than all the philanthropists in the world.

Anonymous

Macmillan Magazine

If you see it you missed it.

Anonymous

Back in the old flip up mirror days.

Someday I'd like to meet the guy who shot your portfolio.

Anonymous

Overheard from chief photographer to dismissed staffer...

Don't you understand this business? If we can't find photos, we bloody well go out and make photos!

Anonymous

-an editor some thirty years ago....

Photography is like golf, you never master it, but you can always get better.

Anonymous

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Anonymous

Blind drug-dealer in Minority Report starring Tom Cruise

the film that survived a bomb blast, got wet when your boat sank , survivived x-ray machines at 5 different airports was ruined when someone opened the darkroom door and let all the dark out.

Anonymous

pictures are just there to fill spaces around the stories.

Anonymous

by an editor at a newspaper.

Photography is way to tell others how you feel about what you see.

Anonymous

Sports are a lot like photography. If you don't focus, all you will get is the negative.

Anonymous

A good photograph will make an uncommonly good image of common subjects.

Anonymous

The brave ones were shooting the enemy, the crazy ones were shooting film.

Anonymous

When one picks up ones camera and freezes a moment in time we all get a glimpse of ones soul

Anonymous

Where is the picture? Deadline is in an less than an hour away, this is a multi-million dollar operation........ and it waits for no one!

Anonymous

Photographers are violent people. First they frame you, then they shoot you, then they hang you on the wall.

Anonymous

Putting the camera in their faces is always the hardest. But you just have to do it.

Anonymous

The only thing wrong with the camera [Canon D10] is that it doesn't walk by it self...

Anonymous

#canon

Business is business. The sooner photographers start learning about and navigating business instead of wasting time trying to control the inevitable forces at play, the better it will be for that photographer.

Anonymous

A subscriber on PhotoPRO Forum

Photography is like a lemon, sour to some, but lemonade to others.

Anonymous

What we can easily see is only a small percentage of what is possible. Imagination is having the vision to see what is just below the surface; to picture that which is essential, but invisible to the eye.

Anonymous

Some of us cynics say that "the quickest way to make a million dollars in photography, is to start with two million dollars".

Anonymous

The only difference between Pornography and Art is the lighting.

Anonymous

Most cameras and most lenses are better than most photographers.

Anonymous

If you buy a flute, you own a flute. So why is it that when you buy a camera, you're a photographer?

Anonymous

You give a man color film, and sooner or later you will catch him out in the garden taking pictures of flowers. This seems inevitable. He just can't resist. He's got this colorful film, y'see, and he spies this colorful flower, and...well, not being a chimp, he does realize that there are enough flower pictures in the world already, and that the one he's about to take isn't going to be of any use to anybody. But he can't help himself. It's too great a temptation to resist. He succumbs to the weakness.

Anonymous

From his Jan. 18/04 Sunday Morning Photographer article.

In the coming struggle between the capitalist and socialist worlds, the political photograph will play an important role as a convincing visual means of propaganda. The workers of the world have to fight for control of this means of propaganda, to then turn it into a weapon of class struggle...

Anonymous

part of the "Proclamation of the Worker Photographers of the World", "Der Arbeiter-Fotograf", Vol. V, No. 5. [cited in: “Photography/Politics: One”, Photography Workshop, London 1979, p. 80]

It is to be understood that worker photographers intending to exhibit … are to concentrate on the photo of class struggle and proletarian life. No bourgeois portraiture, nudes, landscapes, still lifes, will be exhibited.

Anonymous

– instruction to exhibitors to "Proletarian Photo" exhibition, (New Masses VII, No. 1, June 1931, p. 22) [cited in: "Photography/Politics: One", Photography Workshop, London 1979, p. 95]

God made the light, I just paint with it. Amen.

Anonymous

Everybody loves to have their picture took. Everybody.

Anonymous

Leon (Bernzy) Bernstein (movie character, played by Joe Pesci, "Public Eye, The" 1992) [source: www.imdb.com , Memorable quotes]

“Mr. Peters: Got a question for you. Which magazine sells the most copies? Mark Lewis: Those with girls on the front covers and no front covers on the girls.

Anonymous

[source: www.imdb.com , movie "Peeping Tom", GB 1960, Memorable quotes]

There are three types of photographers. The first are with goals of one day selling out to a magazine or whomever has a wallet. The second are the hobbyists who prance around the city with their Leicas. The third is Robert Frank. Thank you for sharing your pictures.

Anonymous

Jimmy Olsen: "I didn't have my camera with me." Perry White: "A photographer eats with his camera, a photographer sleeps with his camera!" Lois Lane: "I'm glad I'm a writer."

Anonymous

#joke #camera #writer

A photograph has always been a lie. We can not freeze time, we are not 2 dimensional, we are not the size of an 8 x 10 glossy, we are not composed in geometric paterns, but we are real. Photos have power because of this illusion. Using the power and exploring it as communication of the collective sub-consciennce can be fun to.

Anonymous

From- www.digitalren.com

There can't be two identical photographs in this world. Not even if it is from the same photographer.

Anonymous

#photograph #world #photographer

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Anonymous

Disappearing Witness: Change in Twentieth-Century American Photography by Gretchen Garner

ISBN: 0801871670 This book is available from Amazon

Mr. Peters: Got a question for you. Which magazine sells the most copies? Mark Lewis: Those with girls on the front covers and no front covers on the girls.

Anonymous

[source: www.imdb.com , movie "Peeping Tom", GB 1960, Memorable quotes]

Sy Parrish: Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.

Anonymous

[source: www.imdb.com , movie "One Hour Photo" USA, 2002, Memorable quotes]

Sy Parrish: According to The Oxford English Dictionary, the word "snapshot" was originally a hunting term.

Anonymous

[source: www.imdb.com , movie "One Hour Photo" USA 2002, Memorable quotes]

Life is like photography. You use the negatives to develop.

Anonymous

#life

Success is not judged by how far you climbed but how many people you took with you

Anonymous

#success

Of what use are lens and light to those who lack in mind and sight?

Anonymous

Translation of Latin inscription on a Brunswick Thaler in 1589.

#light #lens

Anyone can take a picture...a person with a passion sees the picture before it's taken.

Anonymous

#picture #passion

Let's go in the darkroom and see what develops.

Anonymous

The whole question of success and failure [in photography] resolves itself into an investigation of the capacities of the machine and well may we be satisfied with the rich gifts it bestows, without straining it into a competition with art. For everything for which art, so-called, has hitherto been the means but no the end, photography is the allotted agent – for all that requires mere manual correctness, and mere manual slavery, without any employment of the artistic feeling, she is the proper and therefore the perfect medium. She is made for the present age in which the desire for art resides in a small minority, but the craving, or rather necessity for cheap, prompt, and correct facts in the public at large. Photography is the purveyor of such knowledge to the world. She is sworn witness of everything presented to her view.

Anonymous

quoted from The Open University Set Book Industrialization and Culture 1830 – 1914. [cited in: Creative Camera November 1974, p. 364]

#success #photography

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what’s a talking picture worth?

Anonymous

(advertising slogan for Kodak Ektasound system [movie cameras and projectors]) [Popular Photography 4/1974, p, 13]

#slogan #advertisement #picture

If you think Nikon is beyond your reach…It’s not!

Anonymous

[Popular Photography 1/1980 p. 11]

#slogan #advertisement #Nikon

The last thing I need is another picture of me looking like a porcelain doll.

Anonymous

Rose (a movie character), “Titanic” (1997) Source: http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Quotes/

#movie #Titanic

Did you ever hear the saying, ‘A picture holds a thousand words’?

Anonymous

Pete (a movie character), “Life or Something Like It” (2002)

#movie

I took a course in art last winter. I learnt the difference between a fine oil painting, and a mechanical thing, like a photograph. The photograph shows only the reality. The painting shows not only the reality, but the dream behind it. It's our dreams, doctor, that carry us on. They separate us from the beasts. I wouldn't want to go on living if I thought it was all just eating, and sleeping, and taking my clothes off, I mean putting them on...

Anonymous

Veta Louise Simmons (a movie character), “Harvey” (1950)

#movie

There's no way you can possess someone forever. Even in a photograph, there's no way.

Anonymous

Anna D'Antoni (a movie character), “Maniac” (1980)

#movie

Photographic portraiture is the best feature of the fine arts for the million that the ingenuity of man has yet devised. It has in this sense swept away many of the illiberal distinctions of rank and wealth, so that the poor man who possesses but a few schillings can command as perfect a lifelike portrait of his wife or child as Sir Thomas Lawrence painted for the most distinguished sovereigns of Europe.

Anonymous

Photographic News (London) 1861), author unknown

A Concise History of Photography by Helmut Gernsheim

ISBN: 0486251284 Page: 119 This book is available from Amazon

The camera captures light, our minds capture images.

Anonymous

#camera #light

If I could have put it into words I would have written it down. But I couldn't, so I took a picture.

Anonymous

#picture #words

The still photograph is to moving pictures what poetry is to prose - less comprehensive perhaps, less literal even, yet somehow capable of expressing a deeper truth.

Anonymous

#photograph #picture #poetry #truth

All the photographs in the world, when summed together couldn't possibly amount to a moment... So every human being is faced with the same dilemma: The photograph, or the moment?

Anonymous

#photograph #world #moment

Portraiture is a window to the soul.

Anonymous

#portrait

Rookies seeks sharper immage.
Pro's seeks to make money.
Artist seeks light.

Anonymous

Who will deny that “photos without bother” is an ideal in photography; and a dream camera, one that fits over the eyes like a pair of glasses and operates by a flick of an eyelash.

Anonymous

[Minor White, Richard Zakia, Peter Lorenz “The New Zone System Manual”, Morgan & Morgan, Inc., Dobbs Ferry, New York 1978 (Fourth printing), p. 46]

#zone

Between casual snapshooters and creative photographers who take the casual seriously, there seems to be another interface. An “aesthetic of snapshot” has appeared which partakes of both immediate seeing and disciplined craft. The strongest of this school, Gary Winograd, Lee Friedlander, Emmet Gowin, have a fine quality of perception. Perhaps they have always been intuitive, have always felt their way into the subject and reached a degree of penetration that zone system photographers earn by hard work.

Anonymous

[Minor White, Richard Zakia, Peter Lorenz “The New Zone System Manual”, Morgan & Morgan, Inc., Dobbs Ferry, New York 1978 (Fourth printing), p. 47]

There are some visual arts which need an introduction – we feel, however, that with photography this is not necessary. A “true” photograph is strong, silent and speaks for itself.

Anonymous

instead of introduction - {Cited in: “WOMAN – Edouard Boubat Photographer”, Aidan Ellis Publishing Limited, Nuffield, Oxon (G. B.), 1972, p. 7]

The illiteracy of the future will be ignorance not of reading or writing, but of photography.

Anonymous

[cited in: “Germany - The New Photography 1927 – 33’ (Documents and essays selected and edited by David Mellor), Arts Council of Great Britain, London 1978, p. 75]

Viewers will be able to see the continuing tradition of pictorial photography, which continues largely unruffled by modern movements. This conservatism with variations is one of the strengths of the photographic society exhibitions and one of the facets that is periodically attacked by graphic artists and fine art critics.

Anonymous

note in an English catalogue of photographic exhibition, 1960.

A Concise History of Photography by Helmut Gernsheim

ISBN: 0486251284 Page: 217 This book is available from Amazon

#critics

One can hold conferences these days without ministers, but not without Dr. Salomon.

Anonymous

some statesman on legendary Dr. Erich Salomon’s inquisitiveness. [cited in: Creative Camera May 1968, p. 164]

Atget was no pictorial photographer of pretty superficiality; he took reality by the scruff of the neck and threw it in the face of his viewers.

Anonymous

from an article “Eugène Atget: the shock of realism unadorned" [cited in: “Creative Camera” February 1968, p. 58]

They say that pictures don’t lie, but that’s not really true anymore.

Anonymous

PROMOTION LINE FOR NPR INTERVIEW WITH FRED RITCHIN (FEBRUARY 7, 19991)

Most people don't take snapshots of the little things. The used Band-Aid, the guy at the gas station, the wasp on the Jell-O. But these are the things that make up the true picture of our lives. People don't take pictures of these things.

Anonymous

Movie:One Hour Photo

#ordinary #picture #snapshots

Unlike a painter, a photographer starts with something finished and works backward.

Anonymous

#painter

Beauty…it rubs against one’s tounge
it hangs there
hurting one
insisting on its own existence
finally it gets so one cannot stand the pain
then one must have beauty extracted.

Anonymous

What you don’t know is that the client would have paid double, and what the client doesn’t know is that you’d have done it for half...

Anonymous

No one want ordinary photographers anymore. No one wants regular photographers. They want someone that can bring some kind of special lens or special expertise to the conversation.
You have convictions, you have ideas. They may not be perfect, but just get them out there. Give them a shot.

Anonymous

Photographers have evidently made up their minds that it is high time to introduce some new style of portraiture to the public, and we entirely agree with them... One thing is clear. Photographers must pull together if they want to make a definite step. This we urge upon them very earnestly, and if any suggestions come to us on the subject we will readily give them the publicity....

Anonymous

The Photographic News, London 1880

The photojournalist’s job is a simple one.... To create a still image, iconic and truthful, that can replace a thousand words.

Anonymous

Good photographs are made, not taken.

Anonymous

One moment, one second, one push of the button. One single movement to capture that one single frame. An instant based on the instinct.

Anonymous

Single image can save the world.

Anonymous

What do you do for a living? "I shoot people."

Anonymous

#jokes

Photography is the healthful hobby. It takes you out of doors, yet causes no trouble or fatigue.

Anonymous

Kodak advertising slogan of 1888 Source: Newspaper (unknown) of the time.

#ads

Hitherto photography has been principally content with representing Truth. Can its sphere not be enlarged ? And may it not aspire to delineate Beauty, too?

Anonymous

English critic in an article "On Art-Photography" [1861] Cited in “The History of Photography” by Beaumont Newhall, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1964, p. 59.

Don't let a call interrupt your photo.

Anonymous

Canon fights mobile cameras.

#advertisement #ads

You date your cameras, but your marry your lenses.

Anonymous

Julia Margaret Cameron, 1815-79, took up photography at the age of 48—and was an enthusiastic portraitist thereafter. She was a true primitive, shooting by instinct when the picture looked right. She was celebrated for her 'soft focus' techniques, but she simply had not mastered the dos and don'ts of sharp focusing and depth of field. The results were bold and magnificent.

Anonymous

Is it true or merely a canard, that the French photographers have introduced property babies into their studios to do duty instead of the squalling, kicking, little darlings which so often destroy the tempers of the most amiable of operators? ... I remember hearing it stated that the portrait of a baby which was published some time ago in conjunction with the Princess of Wales was not a royal baby at all. Infant royalty had rebelled, and spoiled a good negative in which the Princess was perfect.

Anonymous

The Photographic News, London, 1870

All these portraits are given with a truthfulness free from flattery which makes the Human face appear anything but divine.

Anonymous

The Photographic News, London, 1858

Photographers have evidently made up their minds that it is high time to introduce some new style of portraiture to the public, and we entirely agree with them.... One thing is clear. Photographers must pull together if they want to make a definite step. This we urge upon them very earnestly, and if any suggestions come to us on the subject we will readily give them the publicity....

Anonymous

The photographic News, London 1880

Photography – the best cure for a bad memory.

Anonymous

Anonymous ad. Black & White Photography (monthly magazine) December 2012, p. 42

The wish to capture evanescent reflexions is not only impossible, as has been shown by thorough German investigation, but the mere desire alone, the will to do so, is blasphemy. God created man in His own image, and no man-made ‘machine may fix the image of God. Is it possible that God should have abandoned His eternal principles, and allowed a Frenchman in Paris to give to the world an invention of the Devil?

Anonymous

From the Leipziger Stadtanzeiger newspaper

One picture is worth a thousand words.

Anonymous

#picture #word

The brilliancy and sharpness of some of them are highly remarkable.

Anonymous

Anonymous comment about Matthew Brady's work.

The ultimate photgraphic camera will imprint a scene directly into a person's memory.

Anonymous

It's not the camera, but who's behind the camera.

Anonymous

If you can't make it better make it bigger.

Anonymous

The only reason to do your own processing is quality.

Anonymous

The camera cannot lie, but it cannot help being selective.

Anonymous

One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style.

Anonymous

When you use a camera, not as a machine but as an extension of your heart, you become one with your subject.

Anonymous

Don't ever forget how alien a machine over a person's face appears. A photographer must be sensitive and caring so the mechanical act of recording light images is secondary to the union of spirit with the subject.

Anonymous

Here, in truth, is a discovery launched upon the world, that must make a revolution in art...in what way, in what degree will art be affected by it?

Anonymous

The New Yorker, April 20, 1839

I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it. And by seeing we also begin to understand ourselves.

Anonymous

Pictures always should have a special story behind it or a special meaning to the photographer.

Anonymous

A photograph must say: "Here is what these people are like now."

Anonymous

Good photographs are seen in the mind's eye before the shutter is tripped, but they are made in the darkroom. For it is the final stage of photography -in the production of negative and print- that the creative vision is realized in a picture meant to be looked at, admired, perhaps honoured.

Anonymous

The Print: The LIFE Library of Photography by Editors

Love for photography. Eat sleep and breathe it. Become a photograph.

Anonymous

Canon slogan 1989

#advertisement #love #Canon

Life is fun. You've got the picture to prove it.

Anonymous

Pentax advertisement

#advertisement #Pentax #picture #life #fun

A definition of a professional photographer: A "pro" NEVER shows anybody the mistakes.

Anonymous

#funny #pro #mistake

How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that!"

Anonymous

#Joke #funny #light

Since that was your last flashbulb, shouldn't you have loaded the film before taking the picture?

Anonymous

#picture #light #film

A photographer from a well know national magazine was assigned to cover the fires at Yellowstone National Park. The magazine wanted to show some of the heroic work of the fire fighters as they battled the blaze. When the photographer arrived, he realized that the smoke was so thick that it would seriously impede or make it impossible for him to photograph anything from ground level. He requested permission to rent a plane and take photos from the air. His request was approved and arrangements were made. He was told to report to a nearby airport where a plane would be waiting for him. He arrived at the airport and saw a plane warming up near the gate. He jumped in with his bag and shouted, "Let's go!'' The pilot swung the little plane into the wind, and within minutes they were in the air. The photographer said, "Fly over the park and make two or three low passes so I can take some pictures." "Why?" asked the pilot. "Because I am a photographer," he responded, "and photographers take photographs." The pilot was silent for a moment; finally he stammered, "You mean you're not the flight instructor?"

Anonymous

#Joke #funny #picture #magazine #plane

I used to have a photographic memory, but it was never developed.

Anonymous

#memory

A photographer is like a fish, he lays thousands of eggs hoping that one will grow to maturity

Anonymous

#photographer

Documentary is: A depiction of the real world by a photographer whose intent is to communicate something of importance - to make a comment - that will be understood by the viewer.

Anonymous

Life Library of Photography

Multiple Views : Logan Grant Essays on Photography, 1983-89 by Daniel P. Younger

ISBN: 0826312446 This book is available from Amazon

Photography ...a powerful weapon in awakening the social conscience.

Anonymous

A Concise History of Photography by Helmut Gernsheim

ISBN: 0486251284 Page: 257 This book is available from Amazon

I always considered a still camera to be the equivalent of a single shot rifle. You either get the timing right or you don't. A motor will only record the useless shots on either side of the bell jar.

Anonymous

..If you are just shooting the passing scene people don't care. "Grab" shots tend to look like a sneak took them. Eye contact makes all the difference in a good image. You are the exploiter - it isn't called "taking pictures" for nothing.

Anonymous

What is the most important element of photojournalism: Light? Moment? Composition? You are wrong. - It's magic.

Anonymous

A friend of mine who teaches film-making at a well-known school was approached by a noted brain surgeon who asked that he be given a two-week crash course in film-making because of a film he wanted to produce. “Okay,” my friend said, but I won’t charge you for the course if you’ll swap me a two-week course in brain surgery. That’s something I’ve always wanted to do.

Anonymous

Professional photographer's survival guide by Charles E. Rotkin

ISBN: 0817454098 Page: 11 This book is available from Amazon

#Joke #funny #humor #film #school

Photography was once described as painting with light.

Anonymous

I enjoy photography, that's why I do it. If you are taking pictures you are not enjoying, don't take them. If you are stuck behind the camera and would rather stop taking pictures and play; go play.

Anonymous

A photographer strives to be fully aware of every moment and to be one with all others every moment.

Anonymous

Once you learn to care, you can record images with your mind or on film. There is no difference between the two.

Anonymous

Through photojournalism you learn that all persons are teachers.

Anonymous

Mass journalism has trained us to glance, and the big money photographers have made themselves masters of the craft of the quick impression. For a photographer like Lange, the problem of the viewer's glancing is especially grave. She avoids technical tricks. She seldom arranges her subjects, and when she does, she does it openly: she has the people look at the camera so that the viewer realizes they are "having their picture taken.

Anonymous

Only photographers know what a truly dark room or a truly windless day are.

Anonymous

The most important printing technique is to start with a perfect negative.

Anonymous

You sure got alot of nice equipment,lets see your pictures.

Anonymous

When I make a photograph, I make love.

Anonymous

Shooting stills creates a kid-like curiosity - you begin to see everyday things in new ways. It's way too much fun and should be illegal.

Anonymous

My camera has helped to give me insight to truth. It has helped me to understand that change is wonderful and beneficial.

Anonymous

A camera is a hollow tube that allows free-flowing, inward and outward expressions of love between a photographer and a subject.

Anonymous

What she [Dorothea Lange] wants most is to see the subject here and now in such a way as to say something about the world.

Anonymous

Now smile and say fromage.

Anonymous

Don't worry, I'll fix it in the enlarger.

Anonymous

In the end, better pictures always win. It's only a question of who has them.

Anonymous

I think that when the subject allows the photographer to accompany him/her and witness all his/her private moments, the photographer should give something in return. I see it like a contract where the photographer has to pay the price for being allowed the life of the subject.

Anonymous

By knowing a person, you know yourself. You become the person you photograph. You love that person as you love yourself.

Anonymous

You do not think of your feet when you walk. Likewise, become so accustomed to your camera that its function becomes an extension of yourself.

Anonymous

If you can't make a great photograph of a mundane subject, at least make a mundane photograph of a great subject!

Anonymous

an old photographic maxim

Photographers see the world in only fractions of a second.

Anonymous

Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns.

Anonymous

In photography, the biggest difference between an amateur and a professional is... the size of the wastebasket.

Anonymous

Kodak means photography with bother left out.

Anonymous

Kodak slogan 1909

#advertisement #kodak

We take pictures to record our personal vision of the world.

Anonymous

Nikon slogan

#slogan #advertisement #Nikon #picture #vision

Life is fun. You’ve got the picture to prove it.

Anonymous

Pentax advertisement

#advertisement #Pentax #picture #life #fun

You’ll remember a great image for the rest of your life.

Anonymous

Nikon advertisement

In a true artist the work is the life. There are those who learn what they can do well and then do only that, but she [Dorothea Lange] could never be satisfied that she had seen all there was for her to see.

Anonymous

A great photo happens when a photographer sees a situation unfolding in front of them that evokes an emotion that the photographer feels deep down, in the middle of their chest. And in a split second, they then make a conscience choice of exposure, lens, depth of field, lighting, body language, composition, etc., and releases the shutter. The film is then processed, scanned, laid out on a page, printed on a press, driven across town to the newspaper carrier who throws it on some guy's porch, who then opens the newspaper and looks down at that photo … and if that guy gets the same feeling deep down in the middle of his chest that the photographer did when they viewed the situation in the first place, they have made a great photo.

Anonymous

Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.

Anonymous

Motto of the Baltimore Grotto (caving society).

The type of camera you use for photography makes no difference. A loving, open heart makes a photograph, not a camera.

Anonymous

You need not photograph a thing to know it. All you need to do is spend time with your full concentration with the thing, person or emotion. On way is through photography. Another way is by opening your heart.

Anonymous

You must know yourself and your subject well before you can take a picture. You must become one with it.

Anonymous

Good negatives don't smoke, drink, or run around with other negatives.

Anonymous

Do not see with just your eyes. If so, you are simply turning yourself into another machine. See with your heart and not with your eyes.

Anonymous

#eye

I take pictures like Jimmy Page, and I play guitar like Ansel Adams.

Anonymous

Writers of light do it as wll; they transform shape, line, color, pattern - passionless components - into photographs that grap, delight, revulse, or inspire. Their work bestows life.

Anonymous

One of the best things about not having photographs [in your newspaper] is that you don't have photographers.

Anonymous

Back in the old days, Porter Binks used to have a quote from a Wall Street Journal editor tacked to the wall next to his desk at USA Today. It went something like this.

I remember when I was a good photographer.

Anonymous

The readers? We're not doing this for the readers! Who gives a $#@* about the readers?!

Anonymous

There is no such thing as bad photo assignments ... only bad photographers.

Anonymous

We're the folks that fill the empty space around the crossword.

Anonymous

pictures are just there to fill spaces around the adds

Anonymous

by a publisher at a newspaper.

The only "Bad Light" is the abscence of light altogether.

Anonymous

On some online forum, it was announced that Contax and Domke were merging and all future products will be branded Condom.

Anonymous

When you blame it on the work of art or the equpiment that produced the only thing that is ever changed by it is the artist.

Anonymous

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don''t have the film.

Anonymous

#memory #film

If a picture is worth taking it's certainly worth faking.

Anonymous

One...Two...Three...Photography!

Anonymous

When people say photography is not art what they actually mean is THEIR photography is not art.

Anonymous

Minolta makes the best bodies, Nikon makes the best lenses, Canon makes the best compromise.

Anonymous

My rich friend Bob who has all three systems.

#joke #funny #Nikon #Minolta #lens #Canon

No one makes less sense than famous photographers. It's a good thing they have chosen a visual medium, as words are not their strong suit. Has anyone ever seen a collection of quotes full of as much useless pomposity as these?

Anonymous

I married the model, so I still pay for the shooting....

Anonymous

The difference between the amateur and the professional is that the professional looks it up.

Anonymous

Jesus opened my eyes, as the camera opened my heart to see all of the beauty this world has to behold.

Anonymous

A subscriber on PhotoPRO Forum

When people ask what equipment I use - I tell them my eyes.

Anonymous

Its easy to make a small fortune out of digital photography. First start with a large fortune.

Anonymous

Photography is one of the most universal languages around, and you do not have to say a word.

Anonymous

Never take photographic advice from someone who tells you that there is only one way to do something.

Anonymous

Good photography speaks through silence.

Anonymous

..the montage has to be comprehensible to the working class, in no way must they degenerate into puzzles or be so complicated as they can’t be understood.

Anonymous

– the critic of De Tribune [Rotterdam] complaining about exhibition of worker photography. (De Tribune, January 2, 1933, p. 4) [cited in: "Photography/Politics: One", Photography Workshop, London 1979, p. 85]

I can't sing, I can't paint and I can't write how I feel, so all I have left is photography to express myself.

Anonymous

Photographs don’t lie, people do.

Anonymous

Slogan on the poster of the film "PROOF", Australia 1991) [source: www.imdb.com, Memorable quotes]

In the two pictures of The Wise and the Foolish Virgins it is difficult to distinguish which are the Wise and which are the Foolish, the same models being employed for, and looking equally foolish in both pictures.

Anonymous

comment about a pair of prints in an exhibition under view (The Photographic Journal of 15 August 1865)

Views on nudes by Bill Jay

ISBN: 0240507312 Page: 22 - 23 This book is available from Amazon

Unlike a painter, a photographer starts with something finished and works backward.

Anonymous

If you don't take the time to look, you'll never manage to see anything.

Anonymous

After a few years, a photograph becomes the illusion of a moment in time.

Anonymous

Let your words be few, and your exposures many.

Anonymous

#exposures

I hate photo's. They speak too much.

Anonymous

#photo

It's better to ask forgiveness than beg for permission.

Anonymous

Billy Kwan: We’ll make a great team, old man. You for the words, me for the pictures. I can be your eyes.

Anonymous

[source: www.imdb.com, movie "The Year of Living Dangerously", Australia 1982, Memorable quotes]

Bill Owens: You have no reason to develop your photos here except to annoy me. Sy Parrish: I have a reason. I personally calibrated that machine. It’s the best mini-lab in the state.

Anonymous

[source: www.imdb.com , movie "One Hour Photo" USA, 2002, Memorable quotes]

Sy Parrish: And if these pictures have anything important to say to future generations, it’s this: I was here. I existed. I was young, I was happy, and someone cared enough about me in this world to take my picture.

Anonymous

[source: www.imdb.com , movie "One Hour Photo" USA 2002, Memorable quotes]

The difference bewteen the recorder photographer... and the artist photographer... is that the artist will, by experience and learning... force the camera to paint the imagination...the emotion... the concept and the intent... rather than faithfully and truthfully reproduce an unnatractive and unflattering record.

Anonymous

#photographer #artist #emotion #record #camera

Good better best never let it rest til your good is your better and your better is your best.

Anonymous

#best

The thing itself need only exist for one two-fiftieth of a second, the time it takes to take a photograph. It is the photograph which need have the duration since it is the photograph which is printed in newspapers and magazines, sent through the post, broadcast through the air, projected onto walls––not the event itself.

Anonymous

Creative Camera, August, 1972, page 278

Survival is important than succeed.

Anonymous

When photography was invented artists thought that it would bring ruin to art but it is shown that photography has been an ally of art, an educator of taste more powerful than a hundred academies of Design would have been…

Anonymous

Philadelphia Photographer, April 1868 [cited in: A World History of Photography by Naomi Rosenblum, (third edition) 1997, p. 208]

#design #photography #artist #art

Photography must soon become in fact what it is destined to be: the world’s hobby and the world’s helper – universal in usefulness and pleasure-giving.

Anonymous

from The Photo Miniature, 1902 [cited in: Creative Camera May 1976, p. 148]

#hobby #world #photography

You didn’t compromise on your camera. You shouldn’t on your lenses.

Anonymous

(advertising slogan for Pentax SMC lenses) [Popular Photography 1/1980 p. 1]

#slogan #advertisement #Pentax #camera #lens

What you can see you can photograph.

Anonymous

advertising slogan for Ermanox 4,5 x 6 cm [glass plates] camera, with 85 mm, F 2 lens (Ernemann Works in Dresden, June 1924) Such camera was used by Dr. Erich Salomon [cited in Creative Camera, January 1972, p. 444]

#slogan #advertisement #Ermanox

Take my picture. I'm feeling beautiful tonight.

Anonymous

Lisa (a movie character), “Wicker Park” (2004)

#movie

And if these pictures have anything important to say to future generations, it's this: I was here. I existed. I was young, I was happy, and someone cared enough about me in this world to take my picture.

Anonymous

Sy Parrish, “One Hour Photo” (2002)

#movie

A normal man, given a group photograph of school girls and asked to point out the loveliest one, will not necessarily choose the nymphet among them.

Anonymous

Humbert (a movie character), “Lolita” (1997)

#movie #Lolita

Logicians tell us that two Negatives make an Affirmative. Will somebody say how many Negatives make a Photographer ?

Anonymous

Punch, 12 October 1872 [cited in: Creative Camera January 1970, p. 4]

#photographer #negative

A collusion exists also between all photographers present at the same situation: they look at everything except at one another.

Anonymous

Creative Camera, August, 1972, page 266 and 278

I find the still image more powerful than the moving picture, because it leaves me alone for a moment with my thoughts.

Anonymous

#image #picture #moment

One picture could change your life.

Anonymous

Movie: City of God

#movie

If the picture matters, the camera matters.

Anonymous

Nikon ad.

#picture #camera #Nikon

A photograph on its own can't change the world, but it can be a catalyst.

Anonymous

…color is like dynamite – dangerous, unless you know how to use it.

Anonymous

editors of Esquire magazine, on photographs by Anton Bruehl

1000 Photo Icons by Anthony Bannon (Foreword), George Eastman House

ISBN: 3822820970 Page: 566 This book is available from Amazon

#color

The urge to let nothing interfere with seeing, certainly is not a stranger to the zone-systemized photographer. Making and sustaining contact with subjects intuitively is an experience that is always around in photography. So photographers who assimilate the system can learn to bypass interface as readily as a snapshooter, or so it seems.

Anonymous

[Minor White, Richard Zakia, Peter Lorenz “The New Zone System Manual”, Morgan & Morgan, Inc., Dobbs Ferry, New York 1978 (Fourth printing), p. 47]

If the nude is so treated that it raises in the spectator ideas or desires appropriate to the material subject, it is false art, and bad morals.

Anonymous

– professor Alexander (philosopher)

Views on nudes by Bill Jay

ISBN: 0240507312 Page: 49 This book is available from Amazon

#nude

Amateur Photographer has always held that photography is the province of all – housewives and schoolboys just as much as the man whose mind is brimming with theory, just as much as the highly paid professional. This is our way of putting that belief to the rest – in a practical way.

Anonymous

[editorial, “Do you remember…?”, Amateur Photographer, September 25, 1974, p. 146]

Photography avoids the literary or aesthetic importance of things. It is free of value judgment.

Anonymous

Someone of Renger-Patzsch’s contemporaries. [cited in: “Germany - The New Photography 1927 – 33’ (Documents and essays selected and edited by David Mellor), Arts Council of Great Britain, London 1978, p. 96]

It is not many years ago that the work and name of Steichen acted upon the average photographic public as a red rag does upon the bull. How things have changed – even Mr. Steichen’s work – but his has been no step backward. The inference is plain that the photographic public has been in a measure educated. The non-photographic public, at first but slightly interested, has begun to appreciate that photography holds within itself some possibilities, though individuals still differ as to their extent. This interest is growing, and reacting upon photographers tends toward a more comprehensive understanding and appreciation, resulting in such a decided improvement in the standards of all, even in the standards of Philistine, that we feel confident that many who found no pleasure in earlier published work of Mr. Steichen will now thank us in giving them a second opportunity of viewing the work of this maturing young painter and photographer.

Anonymous

Editorial, “Our Illustrations”, Camera Work 14, 1906. [cited in: Alfred Stieglitz “Camera Work (The Complete Illustrations 1903 – 1917)”, Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH, Köln, 1997, p. 285]

The thrill of photography often lies in seeing without being seen. That means acting quickly, discreetly and sensitively. For this, LEICA M6 is just right.

Anonymous

Advertising slogan to a photograph “Contemplation. [ “World Press Photo 1991”, (catalogue of exhibition), Sdu, Uitgeverij, Koninginnegracht, Amsterdam, p. 122

Facial expression is the wreath that crowns the work and distinguishes good portraiture from bad.

Anonymous

Some XIX century British photographic authority [name unknown] [Popular Photography 4/1974 p. 28, “Viewpoint”]

If pictures have anything important to say to future generations, it's this: I was here. I existed. I was young, I was happy, and someone cared enough about me in this world to take my picture.

Anonymous

Movie:One Hour Photo

#picture #one #hour #photo #cared #important #future #generations

When people's houses are on fire, what's the first thing they save after their pets and loved ones are saved? Their family photos

Anonymous

Movie:One Hour Photo

#family #photos

If you can see, you can also take pictures. But learning to see may take a long time.

Anonymous

#see

And if these pictures have anything important to say to future generations, it’s this: I was here. I existed. I was young, I was happy, and someone cared enough about me in this world to take my picture.

Anonymous

from a movie.

Upgrade your knowledge before you upgrade your camera.

Anonymous

Stranger: "That is beautiful child you have there."
Mother: "That's nothing. You should see his photograph."

Anonymous

#joke

Composite portraits are absolute quackery! What next, composite landscapes?

Anonymous

The Photographic News, London 1888

#composite #portrait

Photography, the universal language that transcends all cultures, all eras.

Anonymous

No good photograph was ever made in the middle of the day.

Anonymous

There is no such thing as a bad assignment, only bad photographers.

Anonymous

From Trent Nelson's blog.

Aperture A little hole in the camera through which a wife, child, dog, cat pawing a ball of wool, wedding, swan, Norman church, father up to his neck in sand, interesting old alley, sailor sticking his head out of a porthole, or Midlands couple who were the life and soul of the party that last night in Ibiza, may be observed by the photographer.

Anonymous

[Keith Waterhouse, “A-Z Photography” The Passing of the Third-floor Buck, 1974] [“The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations”. Edited by Fred Metcalf (Second [paperback] edition) Penguin Books, London 2002, p. 230]

Top ten reasons to date a photographer
1) They work well in the dark
2) They’re used to funny smells
3) They make things develop
4) They work well on many settings
5) They know how to focus
6) They can make big things look small and small things look big
7) They work well from many different angles
8 ) They zoom in and out. And in and out and in and out and in and out...
9) They shoot in many different locations
10) They can find the beauty in anything

Anonymous

#joke

You never see the hard days in a photo album... but those are the ones that get you from one happy snapshot to the next.

Anonymous

Mr. Leezak from the movie "Just Married" (2003). See: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0305711/quotes

The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy. Neither words nor yet the most detailed painting can evoke a moment of vanished time so powerfully and so completely as a good photograph.

Anonymous

(Picture book) Paris under the Commune (By a Faithful Witness, Photography), Cited in "The History of Photography" by Beaumont Newhall, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1964, p. 71.

When people ask me what equipment I use I tell them my eyes.

Anonymous

It is only when the photographer shows that he knows at once what to do under the varied circumstances with which he is surrounded, that the [client] begins to feel that confidence which allows them to nut full trust in his effort, and to bend to his desires without opposition.

Anonymous

The Photographic News, London, 1870. From the book: Face: The New Photographic Portrait by William A. Ewing

Retouchers! Oh what ethical sins have you not to answer for! You compensate for all the crudities and deficiencies of nature.... To round the sharp edges of the features by the transfer of tissue from where it is not wanted to where it is needed.... To fill up the furrows dug by time.... Then enact the chiropodist upon facial excrescences. You do not believe that the man or woman exists who in his or her heart endorses the sentiment of Old Oliver Cromwell about being painted with wrinkles and warts. And you are right.

Anonymous

The Photographic News, London,1890

Life is like a camera. Just focus on what's important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don't work out, just take another shot.

Anonymous

AII artists are exhibitionists; but photographers are also voyeurs.

Anonymous

High Season, a 1987 movie starring Jacqueline Bisset

William Willis introduced in 1879 a photographic paper that used platinum instead of silver salts. This platinotype paper had several advantages over the papers then in use. The image was permanent. It produced an extremely beautiful tonal range; as anyone will confirm who saw the recent Frederick Evans exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. His great pictures of cathedral interiors are living examples to the beauty of the platinotype process. Cost killed the platinotype. Platinum metal increased in price by nearly three times between 1879 and 1891, and rose still higher in later years. By World War I the paper, sadly, was obsolete.

Anonymous

If you want to learn what someone fears losing, watch what they photograph.

Anonymous

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