Students,
Below are the photography quotes you submitted. Please see my e-mail regarding your assignment.
1. "There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs." - Ansel Adams
2. "Wherever there is light, one can photograph." -Alfred Stieglitz
3. "The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words." - Elliott Erwitt
4. “I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good." -Anonymous
5. “You don’t take a photograph. You ask quietly to borrow it.” -Unknown
6. "Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything."-Aaron Siskind
7. "Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work." -Martin Parr
8. “The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.” -Anne Geddes
9. “The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.” -Scott Lorenzo
10. "I love photos, because the best thing about it is that it never changes even when the person in it does." -Iambino
11. “What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” -Karl Lagerfeld
12. "A camera is a save button for the minds eyes." - Rogn Kingston
13. "Your first 10,000 pictures are your worst." -Henry Cartier-Briesson
14. “Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.” -Don McCullin
15. “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” -Ansel Adams
16. "The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset." -Catherine Opie
17. "Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution." -Ansel Adams
18. " Life is like a photography, we develop from the negatives. " -Unknown
19. To me, the magic of photography, per se, is that you can capture an instant of a second that couldn't exist before and couldn't exist after. It's almost like a cowboy that draws his gun. You draw a second before or after, you miss and you're dead - not them. To me, photography's always like that. -Mario Testino
20. "Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.” -Berenice Abbott
21. "There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself."
-Ernst Haas
22. "Photography is a love affair with life." -Burk Uzzle
