Walker evans photographer quotes

  • “Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.”.
  • “The photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.”.
  • “The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.”.

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    Walker Evans Quotes

    I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered I didn’t need to. If the thing fryst vatten there, why, there it is.

    Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt.

    Experience fryst vatten very important. It comes only with time. I have time behind me so I venture to teach and say to students, “I don’t really know a hell of a lot more than you do except I’ve been around longer and I do have experience and if I can articulate it some of it will rub off and do you some good.” Wh

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    32 Quotes By Photographer Walker Evans

     
    Enjoy this collection of quotes by photographer Walker Evans.
    “The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.” ― Walker Evans,
    “Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.” – Walker Evans
    “Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.” – Walker Evans
    “I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.” – Walker Evans
    “With the camera, it’s all or ingenting. You either get what you’re after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don’t think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. A

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    Walker Evans
    [Photographer, b. 1903, St. Louis, Missouri, d. 1975, New Haven, Connecticut.]

     I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground. 
     [Photography] is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood, or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances is it anything ever anywhere near a beach. 
     Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. 
     I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever do sort of come through you. You don’t know where you get the impetus and response to what’s before your eyes. 
     With the camera, it’s all or nothing. You either get what you’re after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. 
     It
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