Eras Quotes - Page 2

People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that.

I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.

There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop

ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper background. Although it makes my life more complicated, I prefer to take my camera out into the street... and places that are out of bounds for photographers have always had a special attraction for me.

You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)

I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.

Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't. Or when the Russians had aquired (through connivance and treachery of Westerns with warped minds) the atomic bomb - and yet still didn't have any stockpile of the weapons. That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.

Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.

The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking. This is especially so in the era of socialism.

Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.

I couldn’t stand in front of any camera, and I couldn’t go to places where there were a lot of people. I thought people would criticize me if I smiled, or even if I just stayed still.

You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

I never, ever went out without my camera, even to buy bread.

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.