Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> From: Ted Grant > > Great photographs "are found!" The fleeting twinkle in the eye of a child, > the wrinkled hands of an aged person, the dead and dying in wars and > famine. Sure anticipation has a lot to do with it, just as timing has > everything to do with photography. But it isn't up to the true > photojournalist to give anything a ""prod""....as that is interfering with > the way life is and has nothing to do with being an unobtrusive candid > photographer. > "Photography . . . seizes the instant in it flight. Approach the subject on tiptoe, even if it is a still life. Let your steps be velvet but your eye keen." Henri Cartier-Bresson "My eyes look out from my head, a simple room. The inside is filled with the clutter of tools and techniques - a plain place, but the view is good" Gary Todoroff