Harry Benson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A good photograph is one that can't be repeated.
-- Harry Benson

#Photograph
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 Benson

#Mistake #People #Making Mistakes
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 Benson

#Photography #New Day #Trying
I don't know what I would have done if I had had to work for a living.
-- Harry Benson

#Done #Evil Dead #Knows
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.
-- Harry Benson

#Night #Thinking #Wake Up
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 Benson

#Mature #Photograph #Pretentious
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 Benson

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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
-- Harry Benson

#Girl #Couple #Nice
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 Benson

#Animal #Stronger #Violence

Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious,
Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.
It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.
Photograph each day so we can live forever
I fight to take a good photograph every single time.
You don't make a photograph just with a camera
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
A photograph is a biography of a moment.

Harry Benson famous quotes

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