Quotes about Photography by Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks American photographer

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

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I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil along with the evil of racism with a camera.

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I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

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The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition.

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The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really the important people are the people he photographs.

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The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

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You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

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