Erwin Blumenfeld quotes

Erwin Blumenfeld quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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 Blumenfeld

Source : "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 Blumenfeld

Source : Erwin Blumenfeld, Hendel Teicher (1981). “Blumenfeld, my one hundred best photos”

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“Beauty is not pretty.”
-- Erwin Blumenfeld

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“You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do... I honestly do... From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul. I'm truly happy.”
“When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny.”
“I've always said I'm not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team.”
“Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience.”
“One always finds time for what one likes.”
“A person who is true to himself likes and loves others for what they are and not what they have.”
“I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.”
“All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.”
“When I make a picture, I make love.”

Source : Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz (1973). “Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer”
“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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