Occupation: Photographer Birth: August 22, 1908 Death: August 3, 2004
Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph..
As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images....We….
Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. The photographers eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can ….
I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes..
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity..
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come ba….
What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values..
It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese..
I'm always amused by the idea that certain people have about technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness of the image. It i….
There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment..
The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt..
I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, ….
In every photographer there is something of a stroller..
To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart..