Vol.3 Legendary photographers said...

Jun 4, 20093 min read

Deviation Actions

Published: Jun 4, 2009

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...about life, art and photography:

_{There is a job to be done...to record the truth. I want to wake people up!
James Nachtwey

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.
Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.
Helmut Newton

I have no way of portraying the lives of others. I portray my own.
Jan Saudek

The photograph that I call my best from a sitting is not always the clients favorite but it is the one that gives out the most emotion to anyone who looks at it .
Marsha Cairo

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them.
Annie Leibovitz

If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough.
Like the people you shoot and let them know it.
Robert Capa

To me, photography is an art of observation. It´s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place...I´ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.
It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.
Elliott Erwitt

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn´t photograph them.
Photography was a licence to go whenever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.
Diane Arbus

I am not interested in shooting new things – I am interesting to see things new.
Ernst Haas

And something very special in the end:

PHOTOGRAPHERS FEEL GUILTY THAT ALL THEY DO FOR A LIVING IS PRESS A BUTTON.
Andy Warhol

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