Words on Photography
WORDS ON PHOTOGRAPHY
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to carry a camera.
- Paul Strand
I photograph to see what the world looks like as a photograph.
- Garry Winogrand
The camera is my tool. Through it I give reason to everything around me.
- Andre Kertesz
You can photograph anything now.
- Robert Frank
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
- Diane Arbus
Photographs furnish evidence.
- Susan Sontag
The hundredth of a second caught so precisely that the motion is continued from the picture indefinitely: the moment made eternal.
- Hart Carne
In my view you can not claim to really have seen something until you have photographed it.
- Zola
Thinking should be done before and afterwards, never while actually taking a photograph. What is there more fugitive and transitory than the expression on a human face?
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
- Dorothea Lange
I’m always mentally photographing everything as practice…. the state of mind of the photographer while creating is a blank. When looking for pictures… The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.
- Minor White
Photography is magic. You can stop time itself. Catch slivers of moments to savor and share time and again. Tell beautiful silver stories, one photo alone, or many playing together to form a book. A photograph is a sharing, it says “Hey, look at this! It’s a miracle, is what it is. And when you’re going good and you get a new picture you love, there’s nothing better. That’s the joy of photography, and the fun.
- Jill Freedman
