5 Quotes by Bruce Barnbaum

There’s a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don’t have a rapport, you’re going to find the task of photographing it difficult.

Why is the ‘average man’ so far below average?

Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.

I think that’s necessary in photography. We try to simplify the chaos that’s out there – and that’s true of the natural world as well as the mad-made world. Clearly, it’s easier in the mad-made world because it has already been structured.

I guess it’s not the plan that counts, but the words in which the plan is wrapped. Semantics count for everything, and it’s obvious that the resolute Republicans are better at semantics than the weak, flip-flopping Democrats.