Occupation: Photographer Birth: March 2, 1921 Death: September 12, 1986
Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction..
With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression a….
You don’t take pictures, the good ones happen to you..
A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?.
Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it..
The most important lens you have is your legs.
Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?.
Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry..
Every work of art has its necessity; find out your very own. Ask yourself if you would do it if nobody would ever see it, if you would never be compe….
You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also give it back. You can put ….
I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new..
Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality. The summation of this indefinable net of your feeling, knowle….
There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is t….
I prefer to be noticed some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye..
My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right..
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are..
A picture is the expression of an impression.
Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. Without touching my subject I want to come to t….
Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality..
You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography..
I want to be remembered much more by a total vision than a few perfect single pictures..