PHOTOGRAPHY ADVICE I GIVE EVERY TIME
“Photography, photo-graphy, means writing with light. Photography, cinema, gives a kind of immortality, a pre-eminence to images and not to real life.”
HERBERT MARSHALL MCLUHAN
YOU DON’T TAKE A PHOTOGRAPHY, YOU MAKE IT
“In front of the lens I am simultaneously: what I believe I am, what I would like to be believed to be, what the photographer believes I am, and what he uses to display his art.”
ROLAND BARTHES
“If you are not a curious person, you certainly won’t be a good photographer.”
HELLIOT ERWITT
“To photograph is to hold one’s breath when our faculties converge to capture fleeting reality, at which point the captured image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.”
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
“When it is well done, photography is interesting. When it is done very well, it becomes irrational and even magical. It has nothing to do with the conscious will or desire of the photographer.”
ELLIOTT ERWITT
“I am against the electronic manipulation of images. I think it is an abomination. I mean, it’s fine for selling corn flakes or cars or removing pimples from Elizabeth Taylor’s face, but it undermines the very essence of photography, which is about observation and not image manipulation.”
ELLIOT ERWITT
