Occupation: Photographer Birth: October 22, 1913 Death: May 25, 1954
It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one..
You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spani….
If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough..
The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda..
The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket….
It’s not enough to have talent. You also have to be Hungarian..
Q: Do you really distance yourself from your subject? I mean, what would you do if you were presented with a young girl burning to death? A: About ….
The [concentration camps] were swarming with photographers and every new picture of horror served only to diminish the total effect. Now, for a short….
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life..
What's the point of getting killed if you've got the wrong exposure?.
The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business..
The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment.
The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944).
For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner..
Like people and let them know it..
The pictures are there, and you just take them..
In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on.