Diary of A Maiden

Los Angeles Photographer

2009-04-19T20:49:00.000-07:00

The difference between the amateur and the professional is that the professional looks it up. - Anonymous

Los Angeles Fashion Photographer

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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Los Angeles Fashion Photographer

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There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.

Los Angeles Photographer

2009-04-15T22:43:00.001-07:00

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Los Angeles Photographer

2009-04-15T22:42:00.000-07:00

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

Los Angeles Photographer

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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Los Angeles Photographer

2009-04-15T22:41:00.001-07:00

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Los Angeles Photographer

2009-04-15T22:40:00.000-07:00

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Los Angeles Photographer

2009-04-15T22:39:00.000-07:00

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Los Angeles Photographer

2009-04-15T22:38:00.002-07:00

In some photographs the essence of light and space dominate; in others, the substance of rock and wood, and the luminous insistence of growing things...It is my intention to present-through the medium of photography-intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to spectators...

Los Angeles Photographer

2009-04-15T22:38:00.001-07:00

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

Los Angeles Photographer

2009-04-15T22:37:00.000-07:00

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.

Los Angeles Photographer

2009-04-15T22:36:00.002-07:00

I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.

Los Angeles Photographer

2009-04-15T22:36:00.001-07:00

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

Los Angeles Photographer

2009-04-15T22:35:00.002-07:00

Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T22:35:00.001-07:00

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

Los Angeles Photographer

2009-04-15T22:34:00.002-07:00

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

Los Angeles Photographer

2009-04-15T22:34:00.001-07:00

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Los Angeles Photographer

2009-04-15T22:33:00.000-07:00

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Los Angeles Photographer

2009-04-15T22:32:00.002-07:00

I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.

Los Angeles Photographer

2009-04-15T22:32:00.001-07:00

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Los Angeles Photographer

2009-04-15T22:31:00.000-07:00

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Ansel Adams Photography Quotes

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All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, "here it is." - Ansel Adams

Fashion Photographer

2009-04-15T22:29:00.001-07:00

Your mind is like a live camera that is constantly taking pictures of every single moment that comes onto you... So be a good photographer! David Acuna.

fashion photography

2009-04-15T22:25:00.000-07:00

My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity; achieving it means understanding the nuances of lighting and composition, and also remembering to keep the lenses clean and the cameras steady

fashion photography

2009-04-15T22:24:00.002-07:00

You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene before, but never like that." It is the kind of photography that relies for its strengths not on special equipment or effects but on the intensity of the photographer's seeing. It is the kind of photography in which the raw materials--light, space, and shape--are arranged in a meaningful and even universal way that gives grace to ordinary objects.

fashion photography

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Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

fashion photography

2009-04-15T22:23:00.002-07:00

The neatest part of this book I'm working on--to me--are the pictures that show the process... Because photographers... think things through and... it isn't luck, and it isn't random and it isn't accidental. It isn't.

fashion photography

2009-04-15T22:23:00.001-07:00

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity, I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs. Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment -- this very moment -- to stay.

fashion photography

2009-04-15T22:22:00.000-07:00

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

fashion photography

2009-04-15T22:21:00.002-07:00

In my work, the most elaborate--and essential--accessory is a standard tripod. For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most elaborate equipment was a deep reverence for the world through which they passed. Photographers share something with these artists. We seek only to see and to describe with our own voices, and, though we are seldom heard as soloists, we cannot photograph the world in any other way.

fashion photography

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It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

fashion photography

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But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the viewer or that, best of all, provokes the viewer to think--to ask a question or simply to gaze in thoughtful wonder. We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make. It is the kind of picture that makes you want to pick up your own camera again and go to work.

fashion photography

2009-04-15T22:20:00.001-07:00

Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these unmade images that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made.

Fashion photography

2009-04-15T22:19:00.000-07:00

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

Photography Quotes Sam Abell

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And that desire--the strong desire to take pictures--is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel. It is the hope that we might express ourselves fully--and the evidence that other photographers have done so--that keep us taking pictures.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T22:15:00.001-07:00

Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known [and this puts] a greater responsibility on the photographer.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T22:14:00.001-07:00

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T22:13:00.001-07:00

If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.

Fashion Photography

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Fashion Photography

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wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design, something pretty. That was not the idea. The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T22:12:00.001-07:00

Just living in a place is not enough. You can live in a community and not understand it. Just looking at it wont do. I almost believe we don’t see anything until we understand it. Look into the history of the area – why it started, how it developed. The more research you can do the place, the more you may realize that you don’t know it as well as you thought you did. Let the subject speak for itself. Be true to the subject. Pretty pictures are only an escape from the subject. Don’t photograph a good-looking branch just because it looks nice; the branch should mean something about the community. Photography is statement; it has to tell us things about a place.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T22:11:00.002-07:00

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

Fashion Photography

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am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.

Fashion photography

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the art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T22:10:00.001-07:00

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T22:09:00.002-07:00

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T22:09:00.001-07:00

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T22:08:00.000-07:00

What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.

Fashion Photography

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Photography helps people to see.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T22:07:00.001-07:00

I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T22:06:00.000-07:00

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. To define selection, one may say that it should be focussed on the kind of subject matter which hits you hard with its impact and excites your imagination to the extent that you are forced to take it. Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T22:05:00.000-07:00

..people say they need to express their emotions I'm sick of that. Photography doesn`t teach you to express your emotions it teachs you to see.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T22:04:00.000-07:00

..people say they need to express their emotions I'm sick of that. Photography doesn`t teach you to express your emotions it teachs you to see.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T22:03:00.000-07:00

None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That’s the only way they are going to find themselves. They can’t do it in their heads – they have to go out and do it in the camera and get it on film.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T22:02:00.000-07:00

Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T22:01:00.000-07:00

To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T22:00:00.002-07:00

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times – the pulse of today.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T22:00:00.001-07:00

The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T21:59:00.002-07:00

Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world – good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T21:59:00.001-07:00

You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it. -

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T21:58:00.000-07:00

I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time...Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism—real life—the now.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T21:57:00.002-07:00

I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he "uncovers" it... - Berenice Abbott

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T21:57:00.001-07:00

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T21:56:00.004-07:00

Suppose we took a thousand negatives and made a gigantic montage: a myriad-faceted picture containing the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city – that would be my favorite picture.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T21:56:00.003-07:00

The camera is no more an instrument of presservation, the immage is... - Berenice Abbott

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T21:56:00.001-07:00

The camera is no more an instrument of presservation, the immage is... - Berenice Abbott

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T21:55:00.000-07:00

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it. - Berenice Abbott

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T21:54:00.003-07:00

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T21:54:00.002-07:00

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T21:54:00.001-07:00

I haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me! - Berenice Abbott, Professional photographer's survival guide by Charles E. Rotkin

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T21:53:00.000-07:00

Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image. - Berenice Abbott, Professional photographer's survival guide by Charles E. Rotkin

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T21:52:00.000-07:00

Let us first say what photography 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. - Berenice Abbott - in "Infinity" magazine,

Fashion photography

2009-04-15T21:51:00.002-07:00

A photograph is or should be significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term – selectivity. To define selection, one may say that it should be focused on the kind of subject matter which hits you hard with its impact and excites your imagination to the extent that you are forced to take it. Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring. The motives or points of view are bound to differ with each photographer, and herein lies the important difference which separates one approach from another. Selection of proper picture content comes from a fine union of trained eye and imaginative mind.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T21:51:00.001-07:00

To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, more selective, more acute eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world. Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times--the pulse of today. The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will, but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in. - Berenice Abbott

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T21:50:00.001-07:00

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Fashion Photography

2009-04-15T21:49:00.002-07:00

Living photography builds up, does not tear down. It proclaims the dignity of man. Living photography is positive in its approach; it sings a song of life -not death. - Berenice Abbott, Photographers on Photography : A Critical Anthology by Nathan Lyons (Editor

utter honesty

2009-04-15T21:49:00.001-07:00

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times - the pulse of today....The photograph...to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in. - Berenice Abbott, Photographers on Photography : A Critical Anthology by Nathan Lyons

the woman's expression

2009-04-15T21:46:00.001-07:00

“The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back.” Dale Carnegie

naked people

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“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark Twain

Katharine Hepburn

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“I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.” Katharine Hepburn

the dress is a vase

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The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.” Pierre Cardin

the rules

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“While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence — which, I believe, does make the woman." Mary Kay Ashe

clothes make the woman

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“While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence — which, I believe, does make the woman." Mary Kay Ashe

Hideous clothing

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“Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing." Dave Barry

Dave Barry

2009-04-15T21:41:00.000-07:00

“Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing." Dave Barry

Anatole France

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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.” Anatole France

Harold Vreeland

2009-04-15T21:39:00.000-07:00

“Clothes don’t make a man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.” Herbert Harold Vreeland

change your clothes

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“When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.” Albert Einstein

how she dresses

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“She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork. Jonathan Swift

Common sense

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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lamn

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The lamb began to follow the wolf in sheep’s clothing.” Aesop

Problems

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“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” Henry J. Kaiser

Respect is love

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“Respect is love in plain clothes.” Frankie Byrne

Sensuality

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“Today, fashion is really about sensuality—how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies—they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.” Donna Karan

fashion and the barbarians.

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“Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.” George Santayana

the dress must follow

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“The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.” Hubert de Givenchy

fashion is what you adopt

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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.” Quentin Crisp

art produces ugly things.

2009-04-15T21:33:00.000-07:00

“Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.” Jean Cocteau

Karl Lagerfeld

2009-04-15T21:22:00.002-07:00

“Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.”