Photography Quotes by Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White

“Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera.”

Cameras

Essentials

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Margaret Bourke-White

A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time… Everything was touched with magic.

Golden

Magic

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Margaret Bourke-White

As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights… That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper.

Opportunity

Perfect

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Margaret Bourke-White

By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited – as all good photographers like to be – in the right place at the right time. Go into it as young as possible. Bring all the asset you have and play to win.

Fate

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Winning

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Margaret Bourke-White

I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.

Choices

Men

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Margaret Bourke-White

I have never forgotten a picture that I ever made.

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Margaret Bourke-White

I’m afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be wholly in the world you are writing about, that it would take two days to get the visitor’s voice out of the house so that you could listen to your own characters again?

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Margaret Bourke-White

If anyone gets in my way when I’m making a picture, I become irrational. I’m never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture.

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Want

Way

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Margaret Bourke-White

If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses.

Giving

Men

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Margaret Bourke-White

Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.

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Speaks Out

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Magic

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Photography Quotes by Margaret Bourke-White

“Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera.”

A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time… Everything was touched with magic.

As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights… That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper.

By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited – as all good photographers like to be – in the right place at the right time. Go into it as young as possible. Bring all the asset you have and play to win.

I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.

I have never forgotten a picture that I ever made.

If anyone gets in my way when I’m making a picture, I become irrational. I’m never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture.

If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses.

Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.

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