Portrait °5

I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves.
The portrait is your mirror. It’s you. (August Sander)

I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves.
The portrait is your mirror. It’s you. (August Sander)

I have a very good memory, but it’s short.
Thank god for photography. (John E. Burkowski)


There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. (Robert Frank)

Photography is a means of recording forever the things one sees for a moment. (Aaron Sussman)

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it. (Emile Zola)

There’s only one rule in photography – never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup. (Freeman Patterson)

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer’s ability
to understand his fellow man. (Edward Weston)

A good photographer must love life more than he does photography. (Joel Strasser)


We don’t make a photograph just with a camera, we bring to the act of photography all the books we have read,
the movies we have seen, the music we have heard, the people we have loved. (Ansel Adams)

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
It’s drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff – being sensitive to coincidence.
(Henri Cartier-Bresson)
The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision.
Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye. (Jacques Derrida)

You look one moment and there’s everything. Next moment it’s gone.
Photography is very philosophical. (Joel Meyerowitz)

Photography is like making cheese. It takes a hell of a lot of milk to make a small amount of cheese,
just like it takes a hell of a lot of photos to get a good one. (Robert Gillis)
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