W. Eugene Smith Quotes about Photography

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

W. Eugene Smith

Photography, Voice, Groups

W. Eugene Smith (1981). “W. Eugene Smith, master of the photographic essay”

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

W. Eugene Smith

Photography, Travel, Cameras

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

W. Eugene Smith

Photography, Distance, Umpires

W. Eugene Smith (1969). “W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes”

I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.

W. Eugene Smith

Photography, Emotional, Made

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

W. Eugene Smith

Photography, Thinking, Purpose

Available light is any damn light that is available!

W. Eugene Smith

Photography, Light, Photographer

Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.

W. Eugene Smith

Photography, Glasses, Photographer

The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by publications using it, has more influence on public thinking than any other branch of photography.

W. Eugene Smith

Photography, Responsibility, Thinking

W. Eugene Smith Quotes about Photography

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