Kyoichi Sawada
[Photographer, b. 1936, Aomori City, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, d. 1970, Cambodia.]
If you’re there, you get good photographs.
Bill Owens
[Photographer, b. 1938, San Jose, California, lives in Hayward, California.]
Photoshop is not in my vocabulary. I don’t need it because I have content.
Duane Michals
[Photographer, b. 1932, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, lives in New York.]
One of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you’re going to get a picture.
Imogen Cunningham
[Photographer, b. 1883, Portland, d. 1976, San Francisco.]
The imaginative photographer is always dreaming and trying to record his dream.
Jan Dibbets
[Artist, b. 1941, Weert, The Netherlands, lives in Amsterdam.]
I really believe in having projects which in fact can’t be carried out, or which are so simple that anyone could work them out. I once made four spots on the map of Holland, without knowing where they were. Then I found out how to get there and went to the place and took a snapshot. Quite stupid. Anybody can do that.
Andy Warhol
[Artist, b. 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, d. 1987, New York.]
I’d gotten myself a 35mm camera and for a few weeks there I was taking photographs, but it was too complicated for me. I got impatient with the f-stops, the shutter speeds, the light readings, so I dropped it.
(1964)
Henri Cartier-Bresson
[Photographer and painter, b. 1908, Chanteloup, France, d. 2004, Paris.]
Complicated equipment and light reflectors and various other items of hardware are enough, to my mind, to prevent the birdie from coming out.
Garry Winogrand
[Photographer, b. 1928, New York, d. 1984, Tijuana, Mexico.]
A photographer’s responsible for two things. Once you put your body where you want it to be, what’s in the frame and when you snap the shutter. That’s what the photographer does. The camera does the rest.
