Constantine Manos famous quotes
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Grain is the brush stroke of photography.
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The flow of people in a setting, their changing relationships to each other and their environment, and their constantly changing expressions and movements - all combine to create dynamic situations that provide the photographer with limitless choices of when to push the button. By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.
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Try not to take pictures which simply show what something looks like. By the way you put the elements of an image together in a frame show us something we have never seen before and will never see again.
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It is easy to take good pictures, difficult to take very good pictures, and almost impossible to take great pictures.
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Taking good pictures is easy. Making very good pictures is difficult. Making great pictures is almost impossible
-- Constantine Manos
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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.
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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
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To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’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.
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As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean.
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Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
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There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.
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People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.
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With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen. With the squeegee you lose control.
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I will preach with my brush.
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