“Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph. Success depends on the extent of ones general culture, on one’s set of values, one’s clarity of mind and vivacity”
-Henri Cartier Bresson,
Harpers Magazine, November 1961
What Henri is saying is that if you take time to pre visualize your next shoot, and time to reflect on the last shoot. You will grow mentally and professionally. It is centering your mind and preparing you mentally for anything you encounter.
“Pointing a camera at a live event is not journalism. Journalism is sifting the wheat from the chaff and selecting what to include and what to exclude and put things into some sort of perspective”
-Ted Koppel
Interviewed by Marvin Kalb
Ted Koppel is saying that we all have a general idea of what news looks like, but we need too show what no one has seen in the news before. We as photographers need to sift through what is mundane and repetitive and find the heart of the story that needs to be seen.
Let us first say what a photograph is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is, or should be, a significant document, a penetrating statement which can be described in a very simple term - selectivity”
-Bernice Abbot, 1951
Bernice abbot is saying that a photograph is a selective way of representing. A way of interpreting and displaying a point of view, or making a clear statement.
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