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Ruth Orkin

US photographer (September 3, 1921 - January 16, 1985)

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To be a photojournalist takes experience, skill, endurence, energy, salesmanship, organization, wheedling, climbing, gatecrashing, etc. – plus an eye and patience.

Ruth Orkin

Photographers on Photography : A Critical Anthology by Nathan Lyons (Editor)

Page: 79 This book is available from Amazon

Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

Ruth Orkin

I always felt that being a photographer was 90 percent being a salesperson. Then and today.

Ruth Orkin

Photographers on Photography : A Critical Anthology by Nathan Lyons (Editor)

Page: 81 This book is available from Amazon

My mother said that when I was young I was constantly saying, “Look at this—Look at that.” I think that taking pictures must be my way of asking people to “Look at this—Look at that.” If my photographs make the viewer feel what I did when I first took them—“Isn’t this funny... terrible... moving... beautiful?”—then I’ve accomplished my purpose.

Ruth Orkin

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