Quotes for All
It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. Eve Arnold
What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing… if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph. Eve Arnold
It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing. To have them realize without saying so, that it was up to them to give me whatever they wanted … Read more
Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn’t make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see. Ernst Haas
I don’t really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially professionally, on the requirements. But my carry-around camera is a Leica. Elliott Erwitt
I shoot with a few different camera’s. A Sony A6000 with several lenses and a Lumix LX100 with a beautiful Leica lens. I like to travel light so I can have it with me most of the time. I really try and document all the places we travel to. Eliot Lewis
The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not. A camera is a Nikon or a Leica or Rolleiflex, and when you strike someone with one, they know they have been hit with something substantial. Danny Lyon
Photographers – idiots, of which there are so many – say, Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a Leica, I could make great photographs. That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life. It’s nothing but a matter of seeing, and thinking, and interest. Andreas Feininger
Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper’s Bazaar and at several agencies as a consultant, young photographers would bring me their portfolios and all the prints would be in the same standard proportions, either for the Leica or the Rolleiflex. … Read more
The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the photographer’s Leica; rather, it is something dynamically produced in the act of representation and reception and already subject to the grids of meaning imposed on it by culture, history, language, and so forth.
Abigail Solomon-Godeau