Occupation: Photographer Birth: August 22, 1908 Death: August 3, 2004
Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible..
I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else i….
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itse….
It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos..
Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important..
Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me..
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality..
One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing..
Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative….
Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?.
The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi ….
I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight..
The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it..
As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is a way….
The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute.
He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment..
I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us..
The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but it’s essential. I didn’t t….
Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment..
We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and….
And no photographs taken with the aid of flashlight either, if only out of respect of the actual light—even when there isn't any of it..