List of Alfred Eisenstaedt Quotes

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Alfred Eisenstaedt
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I don't like to work with assistants. i'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.
Photography Cameras Would Be
In new york’s times square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers.
Girl New York Squares
My style hasn't changed much in all these sixty years. i still use, most of the time, existing light and try not to push people around. i have to be as much a diplomat as a photographer. people don't often take me seriously because i carry so little equipment and make so little fuss... i never carried a lot of equipment. my motto has always been, "keep it simple".
Photography Simple Light
I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. and that simply by blinking my eyes, i shall make pictures. then, i think, i shall really have become a photographer.
Photography Dream Eye
It's important to understand it's ok to control the subject. if most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would end up throwing most in the waste basket. you have to work hard at making an editorial picture. you need to re-stage things, rearrange things so that they work for the story, with truth and without lying.
Photography Lying Hard Work
Photographers don't need to be aggressive. some are. henry benson is aggressive - but then he's from fleet street. if you can talk to people, you don't need to push people around.
People Needs Photographer
I always prefer photographing in available light – or rembrandt-light i like to call it – so you get the natural modulations of the face. it makes a more alive, real, and flattering portrait.
Photography Real Light
When i photographed marilyn monroe, i mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. i took many pictures. only two color ones came out all right. my favorite picture of marilyn hangs always on the wall in my office. it was taken on the little patio of her hollywood house.
Wall Taken Black And White
Today's photographers think differently. many can't see real light anymore. they think only in terms of strobe - sure, it all looks beautiful but it's not really seeing. if you have the eyes to see it, the nuances of light are already there on the subject's face. if your thinking is confined to strobe light sources, your palette becomes very mean - which is the reason i photograph only in available light.
Beautiful Photography Real
The way i would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘aaaaah,’ with five vowels when they see it. it is something you would like to hang on the wall. the french word ‘photogenique’ defines it better than anything in english. it is a picture which must have quality, drama, and it must, in addition, be as good technically as you can possible make it.
Photography Wall Drama
I see pictures all the time. i could stay for hours and watch a raindrop.
Raindrops Watches Hours
I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.
Photography Diplomats Photographer
  • Born: December 6, 1898
  • Died: August 24, 1995
  • Occupation: Photographer
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