Occupation: Photographer Birth: October 16, 1890 Death: March 31, 1976
The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be….
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness..
No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you ca….
And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography you may be able to relate the two, cre….
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep..
All light is available light..
I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them..
All good art is abstract in its structure..
If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photogra….
It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to dig into the truth and ….
I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery..
It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger..
Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconseque….
I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography... you have produced som….
Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important..
The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective….
The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that person photographed to other ….
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees..
Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation.
The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely here tha….
The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends to beco….