“The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) French photographer
Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories
“The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) French photographer
“Photographs… are the most curious indicators of reality.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
Ansel Adams (1902–1984) American photographer and environmentalist
Attributed to Adams in E.T. Schoch (2002), The Everything Digital Photography Book (2002) p. 105
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) French photographer
Source: Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers
Ansel Adams (1902–1984) American photographer and environmentalist
Attributed to Adams in: AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world. (1985) Vol 76, Nr. 19-27; p. 3326
“The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness”
Yann Arthus-Bertrand Earth from Above
Source: Earth from Above
“I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions. Quoted in”
Man Ray (1890–1976) American artist and photographer
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/man-ray/prophet-of-the-avant-garde/510/ PBS episode of American Masters