1,962 Quotes About Photography

  • Author Margaret Brownley
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    When posing for a photograph, spinsters should avoid looking desperate or deprived. A serene smile will show that your circumstances are by choice and not for lack of beauty or character. -Miss Gertrude Hasslebrink, 1878

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  • Author Maggie Ybarra
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    The truth is that you have to fight your way through brutal, ugly realities in order to find that moment of clarity, that one slant of light or shift in emotion that yields unexpected art. That's just as true for life as it is for crime scene photography.

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  • Author Osvaldo Guerrieri
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    Tuttavia non voleva passare per una fotografa sociale. Non più. Adesso, lavorando di tecnica e di fantasia, inseguiva forme distorte e illusionismi ottici. Così facendo sperava di riuscire a svelare il lato invisibile della vita e degli uomini. Si augurava di diventare tanto brava da ricreare la realtà fino a trasformarla in una sur-realtà.

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  • Author Mickey Burrow
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    Photography is not selfish. Although it captures the moment, it doesn’t keep it. Photography gives back to the viewer the fraction of time which it once captured. Making it generous for years and even generations to come.

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  • Author Mickey Burrow
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    Taking a photograph is a lot like falling in love. You see a light and it intrigues you; and you want to see or be in that light forever.

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