Tuesday, April 17, 2012

10 Famous Street Photography Quotes You Must Know...

 
1. “If your photos aren’t good enough, then you’re not close enough” – Robert Capa

2. “Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good” – Garry Winogrand

 

3. “Since I’m inarticulate, I express myself with images.”- Helen Levitt

 

4. “To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” – Elliott Erwitt

 

5. “It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”- Alfred Eisenstaedt

 

6. “I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.” – Lee Friedlander

 

7. “I love the people I photograph. I mean, they’re my friends. I’ve never met most of them or I don’t know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.” – Bruce Gilden

 

8. ”There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.”- Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

9. “Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph” – Andre Kertesz

 

10. “Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn’t look like somebody else’s work.” – William Klein