Erwin Blumenfeld quotes
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“I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.”
-- Erwin BlumenfeldSource : "Erwin Blumenfeld’s Studio" by Genevieve Fussell, www.newyorker.com. September 15, 2014.
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“Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the real from the unreal, to give visions body, to penetrate into unknown transparencies.”
-- Erwin BlumenfeldSource : Erwin Blumenfeld, Hendel Teicher (1981). “Blumenfeld, my one hundred best photos”
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“Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience.”
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“A person who is true to himself likes and loves others for what they are and not what they have.”
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“All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.”
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“When I make a picture, I make love.”
Source : Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz (1973). “Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer”
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“Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.”
Source : Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”
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