We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.
To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact
Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.