Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself.

Popular Topics
Journey, Air, Smile, Lives, Town, Body, Quite, Nice, Achievement, Poet, Wonderful, Food, Story, Life Is Good, Period, Kids, Songs, Ideas, Thing, New York, English, Dance, Football, Think, Name, Beauty, Afternoon, I Miss You, Private Life, Drama, Kind, Talent, Hope, Wonder, Adventure, Life, Life Is Like, Things, Like, Curiosity, Diamond, Perfect Love, Future, Gold, Inspirational Life, Today, Love, Thinking, Comfortable, Teacher
David Hurn

These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them

Extensions, Ones, Peripheral, Photographer, Timing, Two
Same Author Quotes

Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.

Cameras, Complexity, Photography, Reality, Surprise, Wonder

It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should be obsessed with stretching towards that goal through an understanding of others and the world we inhabit. When that happens, the results, like photographs, are really the expressions of the life of the maker.

Expression, Goal, Like, Photography, Potentially, Strives

I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise.

Know, Photographer, Photography, Pictures, Saws, Time

The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography. . . The reason is that photography is only a tool, a vehicle, for expressing or transmitting a passion in something else. It is not the end result.

Interested, Issues, Passion, Photography, Tool, Transmitting

For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.

Excuse, Know, Nosy, Photography, Things, Want
Similar Quotes