The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. There is something demoralizing about going back to a place to retake pictures. You can no longer see your subjects in a fresh eye; you keep comparing them with the pictures you hold in your memory. [The] world was full of discoveries waiting to be made...(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned...you would react to something all others might walk by.
The sights I have just seen [at Buchenwald] are so unbelievable that I don't think I'll believe them myself until I've seen the photographs. - Margaret Bourke-White
The sights I have just seen [at Buchenwald] are so unbelievable that I don't think I'll believe them myself until I've seen the photographs.
- Margaret Bourke-White
The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way. - Margaret Bourke-White
The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.
"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera." - Margaret Bourke-White
"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."
It seems to me that while it is very important to get a striking picture of a line of smoke stacks or a row of dynamos, it is becoming more and more … - Margaret Bourke-White
It seems to me that while it is very important to get a striking picture of a line of smoke stacks or a row of dynamos, it is becoming more and more …
I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulat… - Margaret Bourke-White
I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulat…
Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open. - Margaret Bourke-White
Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.
Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject. - Margaret Bourke-White
Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.
Work to me is a sacred thing. - Margaret Bourke-White
Work to me is a sacred thing.
If you banish fear, nothing terribly bad can happen to you. - Margaret Bourke-White
If you banish fear, nothing terribly bad can happen to you.
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