Bill Eppridge quotes
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“You are not just a photojournalist, you're a historian.”
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“There in front of me was the Senator on the floor being held by the busboy. There was nobody else around, and I made my first frame, and I forgot to focus the camera. The second frame was a little more in focus... then just for a second, while everything was open, the busboy looked up, and he had this look in his eye. I made that picture, and then suddenly the whole situation closed in again. And it became bedlam.(On the 1968 shooting of U.S. presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy.)”
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“I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.”
-- Bill Eppridge -
“Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that you use at all times.”
-- Bill Eppridge -
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“If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.”
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“Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.”
Source : Edward Hallett Carr (1965). “What is History?”
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“fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.”
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“I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.”
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