Zitate von Fotografen

Wundervolle Fotos! Matt hat soeben einen Follower mehr auf flickr.

"There's no better way of finding out about something than going to photograph it."
(Es gibt keine bessere Art, etwas herauszufinden, als es zu fotografieren.)

"If I knew how to take a great photo, I'd stop."
(Wüsste ich, wie man ein großartiges Foto macht, würde ich aufhören.)

Martin Parr

Zitate großer Fotojournalisten und Reportagefotografen, die etwas gemeinsam haben. Es geht ums Sehen und Fühlen:

“Photography helps people to see.” - Berenice Abbott (1898 - 1991)

“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 (1935)

“A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.” - Dorothea Lange

“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 (1928)

“It’s about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It’s simply a matter of noticing things and organising them. You just have to care about what’s around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.” - Elliott Erwitt

“I am not interested in shooting new things – I am interested to see things new.” - Ernst Haas (1921 - 1986)
“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.” - Ernst Haas

“I think that emotional content is an image’s most important element, regardless of the photographic technique. Much of the work I see these days lacks the emotional impact to draw a reaction from viewers, or remain in their hearts.”

"Ich finde den emotionalen Inhalt eines Bildes am wichtigsten, ungeachtet von der fotografischen Technik. Vielen heutigen Fotografien fehlt es an emotionaler Wucht um eine Reaktion der Betrachter zu erwirken oder in ihren Herzen zu bleiben." - Anne Geddes (1956)

“Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.”

Natürlich wird es immer diejenigen geben, die nur auf die Technik schauen, die nach dem "Wie" fragen, während andere - neugierigere - nach dem "Warum" fragen. Mir war immer die Inspiration wichtiger als die Information. - Man Ray (1890 - 1976)

„The easiest thing to do in the world is to be a photographer. You just have to push the button.

The hardest thing as a photographer is to make an image which you can look at for a long time.” - Ralph Gibson

Auf Gibson bin ich gekommen, weil ich mich gerade auf einen Prag-Besuch vorbereite. Seine Bilder werden gerade in der Leica Gallery in Prag gezeigt.