Quotes by David Hurn - Page 1

Learn from the best; the second raters have nothing to offer.
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Offers
Photography
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You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography.
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Photographer
Photography
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For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.
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Excuse
Photography
Want
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The most important piece of equipment after the camera is a good pair of shoes.
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Cameras
Important
Shoes
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My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an exaggerated sense of curiosity.
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Advice
Curiosity
Photography
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I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.
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Photography
Tools
Understanding
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These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them
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Photographer
Timing
Two
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...one day I was speculating on how I would like to look back on life and I decided I wanted to feel that I was a photographer rather than a teacher. As simple as that.
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Teacher
Photography
Simple
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There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no desire to create or stage direct ideas.
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Desire
Ideas
Photography
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I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity but honesty. It is eye-witness photography.
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Eye
Honesty
Photography
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The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the results to others.
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Moments
Photography
Results
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Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.
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Cameras
Photography
Reality
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This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in the medium. And it's true. If you watch a photographer of merit working an event he/she does not look like an amateur.
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Ideas
Photography
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The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography...The reason is that photography is only a tool, a vehicle, for expressing or transmitting a passion in something else. It is not the end result.
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Issues
Passion
Photography
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I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise.
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Photographer
Photography
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In previous ages the word 'art' was used to cover all forms of human skill. The Greeks believed that these skills were given by the gods to man for the purpose of improving the condition of life. In a real sense, photography has fulfilled the Greek ideal of art; it should not only improve the photographer, but also improve the world.
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Art
Photography
Real
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It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should be obsessed with stretching towards that goal through an understanding of others and the world we inhabit. When that happens, the results, like photographs, are really the expressions of the life of the maker.
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Expression
Goal
Photography
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