Ruth Bernhard Quotes

Cameras aren't guns. They can't really hurt you.

There are no photographs while I'm reloading .

A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults or isms. They are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. They are lenses of the unlimited reproduction.

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera.

There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.

The camera is the eye of history.

I want to be completely honest, I have to say that I love the intimacy of the camera.

There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible for how it [the photograph] looks. And it's not plastic, in a way. The problem is unique in photographic terms.

I find myself in situations that I know would be unbelievable pictures and I have to gauge, Is this worth taking the camera out? Am I gonna lose the moment? Am I gonna get a dirty look from Sting?

I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.

A camera gives you a purpose.

The fundamental peculiarity of the photographic medium; the physical objects themselves print their image by means of the optical and chemical action of light.

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.

It gives you more freedom, the digital camera.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.