Harry Benson quotes
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“A good photograph is one that can't be repeated.”
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“There is only one point of view, that is your point of view. You are making a mistake if you see the point of view of people. There is only one and that is your livelihood.”
-- Harry BensonSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“The thing about photography is that every day is a new day, even if you are working on the same story, because every day you have got a chance to correct what you did the day before, and try to take it a bit further or a bit back.”
-- Harry BensonSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I don't know what I would have done if I had had to work for a living.”
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“I was next to Bobby [Kennedy] when he was shot. It was hideous. Part of me wanted to crawl away. I couldn't... I still wake up in the night and think about it. I even remember the f-stop. It was 1.4.”
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“It takes a while for a photograph to mature. That sounds really pretentious, but it takes a time for it to go from here to there.”
-- Harry BensonSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I have always been anonymous, that is the position I should be. And it is hard to say why or how you did something, it just happens.”
-- Harry BensonSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“John Lennon brought his wife Cynthia, a nice blonde girl and she was horribly put out of sight and stayed home. I know it broke John's heart John wasn't happy about it and she was-- because we spoke on the plane. I photographed her and them on the plane coming over. And you know photographs don't lie. They tried putting on a black wig on her for a couple of days and that was the sad part that kept quiet because they wanted them to be like, you know, fresh- which they were”
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“My ethics are basically around animals. I cannot do animals in distress. I was able to shut myself off with humans, and in a strange way, if you go through violence, you come out stronger at the other end than what you went in.”
-- Harry BensonSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press
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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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“It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.”
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“To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.”
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“A photograph is a biography of a moment.”
Source : "Photographs tell story of decades-long romance". Interview with Dean Reynolds, www.cbsnews.com. February 13, 2014.
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