Top 12 Harold Feinstein Quotes

#1. I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.

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#2. When your mouth drops open, click the shutter.

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#3. The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.

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#4. I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.

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#5. On one hand you want to see your subject well. On the other hand, you want to be caught off guard to retain the spontaneity. If you know your subject too well you stop seeing it.

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#6. I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.

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#7. Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.

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#8. Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.

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#9. Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.

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#10. I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.

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#11. The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!

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#12. [W]e have ceased to see the life in which we live. It is my intent to cause the viewer to revisit the gifts we are surrounded by and see them as if for the first time.

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