Bill Brandt Quotes
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.
The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.
And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.
No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.
I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.
Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.
