Quotes About Street Photography

#1. I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.

Barbara Kruger

#2. 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.

Harold Feinstein

#3. I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography - that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and portrait photography, are a little more applied, more mixed in the with the history of painting and other art forms.

Joel Meyerowitz

#4. Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.

Thomas Leuthard

#5. The main thing I love about street photography is that you find the answers you don't see at the fashion shows. You find information for readers so they can visualize themselves.

Bill Cunningham

#6. Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it ...

Thomas Leuthard

#7. I have always felt that a lot of the most interesting work, not just mine but other people's, falls into [the] nether area, somewhere between the worlds of documentary and photojournalism (two very vague words) and the world of art. I think a lot of street photography falls into this nether area.

Alex Webb

#8. It's neither our culture nor our race which
interconnects us. It's Street Photography.

Thomas Leuthard

#9. The Word - is the key to life. - When man speaks the word "I Am" he directly links himself with God.

Edgar Cayce

#10. George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust.

Jim Edgar

#11. Polaroid, you know, goes against everything that photography is now. You can't make multiples. Only one exists. I love that. By the way, while we've been talking I've now seen a total of three people I know walking on 8th street.

Laurel Nakadate

#12. Past age fifty-five, I experienced the advancement of exquisite fabric choices, paint distinctions that were celestial in scope, yet so many other man-made objects, such as people, became drab, redundant and boring.

Carol A. Elliott

#13. Slow down, take time, allow yourself to be wildly diverted from your plan. People are the soul of the place; don't forget to meet them and enjoy their company as you explore a place.

David DuChemin

#14. Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. "Heroism" in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone.

Hedi Slimane

#15. I started out on photography accidentally. A policeman came to a stop at the end of my street, and a guy knifed him at the end of my street. That's how I became a photographer. I photographed the gangs that I went to school with.

Don McCullin

#16. I have been abandoned by people I did not want to leave me and I have deserted people who begged me to stay. Yep ... you definitely reap what you sow.

Joy Marino

#17. Before the first press pictures, the ordinary man would visualize only those events that took place near him, on his street or in his village. Photography opened a window. As the reader's outlook expanded, the world began to shrink.

Gisele Freund

#18. I think as far as I've been able to understand from my friends that I went to college with and things like that is that it almost seems like Russian Roulette when you're coming out of the closet to your parents.

Jason Ritter

#19. I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.

Charles Bukowski

#20. Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.

Marius Vieth

#21. Photoshop and Lightroom help me transform my photos into what my heart felt, but my camera couldn't quite capture!

Marius Vieth

#22. Photography is like life What does it all mean? I don't know - but you get an impression, a feeling. An impression of walking through the street, walking through the park, walking through life. I'm very suspicious of people who say they know what it means.

Leonard Freed

#23. When it's only Monday and my bestie is already having a horrible week, I start hunting for memes to send him so that in amongst all the pain and misery he can get really annoyed that his whatsapp is going every two minutes with pointless pictures taking up all of the space on his phone.

C.S. Woolley

#24. I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.

Alex Webb

#25. When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!

Ted Grant

#26. You can't play with everything that looks playable, I guess even a child knows that.

M.F. Moonzajer

#27. Don't be afraid, we'll never know until we try.

James Marquess

#28. I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses; and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.

Walter Savage Landor

#29. Give yourself a break to avoid a breakdown.

Karen Salmansohn

#30. I sometimes think humor and satire are more effective techniques for expressing social statements than direct comment.

Kristin Hunter

#31. Banks frown when employees torch the home of their principal account holder.

Kathy Bryson