Bill Eppridge famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You are not just a photojournalist, you're a historian.
-- Bill Eppridge

#Historian #Photojournalists
There in front of me was the Senator on the floor being held by the busboy. There was nobody else around, and I made my first frame, and I forgot to focus the camera. The second frame was a little more in focus... then just for a second, while everything was open, the busboy looked up, and he had this look in his eye. I made that picture, and then suddenly the whole situation closed in again. And it became bedlam.(On the 1968 shooting of U.S. presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy.)
-- Bill Eppridge

#Eye #Focus #Presidential
I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.
-- Bill Eppridge

#Thinking #Photographer #Moments
Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that you use at all times.
-- Bill Eppridge

#Jobs #Sight #Looks

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.
If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.
A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?
Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.
The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar.
No historian should be trusted implicitly.
fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.
I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.

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