Lisette Model Professions : Photographer Born : November 10, 1901 Died : March 30, 1983 Browse All Authors Top 17 quotes by Lisette Model Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest. Lisette Model photography photographer art I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth. Lisette Model photography truth love Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know. Lisette Model instruments cameras photography I have often been asked what I wanted to prove by my photographs. The answer is, I don’t want to prove anything. They prove to me, and I am the one who gets the lesson. Lisette Model lessons answers want Never take a picture of anything you are not passionately interested in. Lisette Model It is the surface I am interested in. Because the surface is the inside. Lisette Model surface Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture. Lisette Model understanding photography photographer I just picked up a camera without any kind of ambition to be good or bad. And especially without any ambition to make a living... My whole freedom working in photography comes because I say to myself, Let's see what is going on in this world. Let's find out. How do these people look? Lisette Model photography ambition people New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. Lisette Model conventions invisible routine Don't shoot til the subject hits you in the pit of your stomach. Lisette Model stomach pits subjects The snapshooter’s pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection, which is exactly their appeal and their style. The picture isn’t straight. It isn’t done well. It isn’t composed. It isn’t thought out. And out of this imbalance, and out of this not knowing, and out of this real innocence toward the medium comes an enormous vitality and expression of life. Lisette Model knowing real expression I am a pationate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth ... the snapshooter['s] pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection which is exactly their appeal and their style. Lisette Model snapshots imperfection style New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to dare to see, to be aware of what there is and how it is. The photographer not only gets information, he gives information about life. Lisette Model routine information giving The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance. Innocence is one of the highest forms of being and ignorance is one of the lowest. Lisette Model ignorance ambition wish They say my prints are bad, darling they should see my negatives Lisette Model darling print should This photographic thing has changed the entire vision of the world. It will go through every activity of humanity - science, medicine, space, ESP, for peace, against peace, entertainment, television, movies, all of them - you will not find one without photography. Lisette Model medicine space photography Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second. Lisette Model photography today art Similar Authors Inge Morath photographer Bert Stern photographer Brent Stirton photographer Bunny Yeager photographer Burt Glinn photographer Bruno Barbey photographer All Authors
