Cornell Capa famous quotes

07-18-2025

The idea that any photography can't be personal is madness! I see something; it goes through my eye, brain, heart, guts; I choose the subject. What could be more personal than that?
-- Cornell Capa

#Photography #Heart #Eye
One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.
-- Cornell Capa

#Photography #War #Photographer
Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.
-- Cornell Capa

#Photography #Art #Men
The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.
-- Cornell Capa

#Photography #Feelings #Photographer
I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what I really hope is that I have done some good photo stories with memorable images that make a point, and, perhaps, even make a difference.
-- Cornell Capa

#Photography #Memorable #Artist
With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.
-- Cornell Capa

#War #Vietnam #Argument
The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.
-- Cornell Capa

#Important #Cameras #Stories
Images at their passionate and truthful best are as powerful as words can ever be. If they alone cannot bring change, they can at least provide and understanding mirror of man's actions, thereby sharpening human awareness and awakening conscience.
-- Cornell Capa

#Powerful #Men #Mirrors

How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesnâ€™t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.

Cornell Capa famous quotes

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