Philip Jones Griffiths Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“The ability to keep things in perspective is very important for a journalist. In a tense situation you need the ability to be there, yet somehow step aside; to keep a cool head and keep working without getting frustrated.”
-- Philip Jones Griffiths

#Perspective #Frustrated #Important
“The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the speaker was Emrys Jones. He projected the picture upside down. Deliberately, to disregard the subject matter to reveal the composition. It's a lesson I've never forgotten.”
-- Philip Jones Griffiths

#Photography #Lessons #Clubs
“Even if not a single picture is never published, they exist. And that means that we are recording the history of the human race. If that's all your doing, it still a very very worth while profession to be involved in.”
-- Philip Jones Griffiths

#Photography #Mean #Race
“The only thing we photographers really want more than life, more than sex, more than anything, is to be invisible.”
-- Philip Jones Griffiths

#Sex #Want #Photographer
“People believe pictures. It's a photograph that's in your passport, not a painting. Now, George Bernard Shaw said, 'I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.' That's what the power of photography is.”
-- Philip Jones Griffiths

#Photography #Believe #People
“... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable attribute.”
-- Philip Jones Griffiths

#Photography #Reality #Records

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