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I seldom think when I take a ...

I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle at which your photograph is to be taken.

Alfred Eisenstaedt 40 quotes

It's important to understand ...

It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would end up throwing most in the waste basket. You have to work hard at making an editorial picture. You need to re-stage things, rearrange things so that they work for the story, with truth and without lying.

Alfred Eisenstaedt 40 quotes

Today's photographers think d...

Today's photographers think differently. Many can't see real light anymore. They think only in terms of strobe - sure, it all looks beautiful but it's not really seeing. If you have the eyes to see it, the nuances of light are already there on the subject's face. If your thinking is confined to strobe light sources, your palette becomes very mean - which is the reason I photograph only in available light.

Alfred Eisenstaedt 40 quotes

All photographers have to do,...

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

Alfred Eisenstaedt 40 quotes

I have to be as much diplomat ...

I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.

Alfred Eisenstaedt 40 quotes

I seldom think when I take a p...

I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle at which your photograph is to be taken.

Alfred Eisenstaedt 40 quotes

My style hasn't changed much i...

My style hasn't changed much in all these sixty years. I still use, most of the time, existing light and try not to push people around. I have to be as much a diplomat as a photographer. People don't often take me seriously because I carry so little equipment and make so little fuss... I never carried a lot of equipment. My motto has always been, 'Keep it simple'.

Alfred Eisenstaedt 40 quotes

It's important to understand i...

It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would end up throwing most in the waste basket. You have to work hard at making an editorial picture. You need to re-stage things, rearrange things so that they work for the story, with truth and without lying.

Alfred Eisenstaedt 40 quotes

I see pictures all the time. I...

I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop.

Alfred Eisenstaedt 40 quotes

I will be remembered when I'm ...

I will be remembered when I'm in heaven. People won't remember my name, but they will know the photographer who did that picture of that nurse being kissed by the sailor at the end of World War II. Everybody remembers that.

Alfred Eisenstaedt 40 quotes

Photographers don't need to be...

Photographers don't need to be aggressive. Some are. Henry Benson is aggressive - but then he's from Fleet Street. If you can talk to people, you don't need to push people around.

Alfred Eisenstaedt 40 quotes

The most important thing... is...

The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject.

Alfred Eisenstaedt 40 quotes

The important thing is not the...

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

Alfred Eisenstaedt 40 quotes

Once the amateur's naive appro...

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

Alfred Eisenstaedt 40 quotes

It is more important to click ...

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

Alfred Eisenstaedt 40 quotes

I dream that someday the step ...

I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.

Alfred Eisenstaedt 40 quotes

I don't like to work with assi...

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

Alfred Eisenstaedt 40 quotes

When I have a camera in my han...

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Alfred Eisenstaedt 40 quotes

We are only beginning to learn...

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

Alfred Eisenstaedt 40 quotes

Keep it simple....

Keep it simple.

Alfred Eisenstaedt 40 quotes

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