Quotes by Photography Today's photographers think differently. Many can't see real light anymore. They think only in terms of strobe - sure, it all looks beautiful but it's not really seeing. If you have the eyes to see it, the nuances of light are already there on the subject's face. If your thinking is confined to strobe light sources, your palette becomes very mean - which is the reason I photograph only in available light. Alfred Eisenstaedt photography real beautiful When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. Alfred Eisenstaedt cameras photography hands Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter. Alfred Eisenstaedt boss photography people I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle at which your photograph is to be taken. Alfred Eisenstaedt eye photography taken I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover outside my own window. You only need to study the scene with the eyes of a photographer. Alfred Eisenstaedt eye photography people I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer. Alfred Eisenstaedt diplomats photography photographer People will never understand the patience a photographer requires to make a great photograph, all they see is the end result. I can stand in front of a leaf with a dew drop, or a rain drop, and stay there for ages just waiting for the right moment. Sure, people think I'm crazy, but who cares? I see more than they do! Alfred Eisenstaedt crazy photography rain We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant. Alfred Eisenstaedt fleeting photography world The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘Aaaaah,’ with five vowels when they see it. It is something you would like to hang on the wall. The french word ‘photogenique’ defines it better than anything in English. It is a picture which must have quality, drama, and it must, in addition, be as good technically as you can possible make it. Alfred Eisenstaedt wall photography drama The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject. Alfred Eisenstaedt shutters important photography All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment. Alfred Eisenstaedt photography photographer stories I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough. Alfred Eisenstaedt cameras photography would-be I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer. Alfred Eisenstaedt eye photography dream My style hasn't changed much in all these sixty years. I still use, most of the time, existing light and try not to push people around. I have to be as much a diplomat as a photographer. People don't often take me seriously because I carry so little equipment and make so little fuss... I never carried a lot of equipment. My motto has always been, "Keep it simple". Alfred Eisenstaedt light photography simple It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would end up throwing most in the waste basket. You have to work hard at making an editorial picture. You need to re-stage things, rearrange things so that they work for the story, with truth and without lying. Alfred Eisenstaedt hard-work photography lying In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. Alfred Stieglitz photography inspiring inspirational A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience. Alfred Stieglitz creativity photography art Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession. Alfred Stieglitz passion photography photographer Wherever there is light, one can photograph. Alfred Stieglitz light photography photographer My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences. Alfred Stieglitz photography philosophy art «1234567891011»