Posts filed under 'Photographic quotes'

Henri Cartier-Bresson

said and I quote:

“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.”

So true. Although it’s surprising the number of people who believe I can just pop back to a location and take the same picture again. Believe me I’ve returned to locations before … hoping, but it’s never works out that way. Sometimes I get a better photograph!

November 23rd, 2006

Henri Cartier-Bresson

said and I quote:

“What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.”

November 16th, 2006

Bernice Abbott said:

“Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.”

Yes bit of a double edged sword that one, although I think people are starting to appreciate the art of photography. 

 

November 9th, 2006

Henri Cartier-Bresson said:

“To take photographs is to hold one’s breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeting reality. It is that moment that mastering an image become a great physical and intellectual joy.”

Very deep, but very true also.

November 2nd, 2006