Black And White Photography Quotes:

When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!

- Ted Grant

topic: Photography, Black And White, Color, Great Photography, Street Photography

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

- Doris Lessing

topic: Black And White, Simple, Black White, Black And White Photography

The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

- Robert Frank

source: Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

topic: Photography, Eye, Black And White, Inspiring Photography, Street Photography

In the beginning it was all black and white.

- Maureen O'Hara

topic: Black And White, All Black, Black White, Black And White Photography

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

- Robert Frank

source: Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

topic: Photography, Black And White, Color, Color Photography, Art Photography

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

topic: Photography, Eye, Heart, Head And Heart, Camera And Photography

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

- Louis Aragon

topic: Meaningful, Black And White, Errors, Black And White Photography, Black White

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

- Elliott Erwitt

topic: Inspirational, Taking Pictures, Analog, Street Photography, Photography By Photographers

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

- Robert Doisneau

topic: Photography, Photograph, Leica, Good Photography, Black And White Photography

Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, Black And White, Reality, Black And White Photography

My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.

- Graham Chapman

topic: Philosophy, Black And White, Color, Color Television, Black And White Photography

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

- August Sander

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Shadow, Great Photography, Capturing A Moment Photography

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

- Richard Avedon

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Photography, People, Portraits, Camera And Photography, Capturing A Moment Photography

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

- William Klein

topic: Photography, Being Yourself, Looks, Street Photography, Clumsy

To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.

- Rene Burri

topic: Photography, Black And White, Nostalgia, Black And White Photography

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, Art, Book, Inspirational Photography, Inspiring Photography

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

- Imogen Cunningham

topic: Inspirational, Tomorrow, My Favorite, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

- Leonard Nimoy

topic: Black And White, Reason, Contrast, Highlights, Black And White Photography

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, Mistake, Burning, Great Photography, Landscape Photography

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

- W. Eugene Smith

source: W. Eugene Smith (1981). “W. Eugene Smith, master of the photographic essay”

topic: Photography, Voice, Groups, Lure, Color Photography

A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.

- Arnold Newman

topic: Photography, Heart, Thinking, Inspiring Photography, Camera And Photography

...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, Black And White, Color, Color Photography, Black And White Photography

I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley Horn. I am inspired by my mentor Diana Castle, who is guiding me towards a truth and honesty in my life and work that I have always longed for.

- Erica Tazel

source: "Actor Erica Tazel: Working towards truth and honesty and the importance of quiet time". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Photography, Beach, Honesty, Vocalist, Black And White Photography

Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.

- Margaret Bourke-White

topic: Ties, Together, Typical, Black And White Photography

Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.

- William Eggleston

source: Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

topic: Photography, Art, Black And White, Art Photography, Black And White Photography

I just get the will to do it.  I don’t plan a photograph in advance…  I work by impulse.  No philosophy.  No ideas.  Not by the head but by the eyes.  Eventually inspiration comes-instinct is the same as inspiration, and eventually it comes.

- Manuel Alvarez Bravo

topic: Black And White Photography

One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up in the library, where there happened to be a black and white photography exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg's photographs of the streets of New York. The subject of his photos were exactly what I was painting about.

- Jose Parla

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Photography, Teacher, New York, Black And White Photography

In fact, I probably learned more about photography from studying black-and-white photography in those magazines [Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine] than I did from watching movies here. That's the truth.

- Vilmos Zsigmond

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Photography, Black And White, Looks, Black And White Photography