Mediante la fotografÃa y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condición fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusión de mi pasado.
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Isabel Allende
All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Susan Sontag
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Susan Sontag
Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? Â
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Henri CartierBresson
The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.
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Susan Meiselas
More Quotes By Helmut Newton
The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.
My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.
It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.