Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Constantine Manos

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American photographer Constantine Manos.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Constantine Manos

Constantine "Costa" Manos is a Greek-American photographer known for his images of Boston and Greece. His work has been published in Esquire, Life, and Look. He is a member of Magnum Photos.

Taking good pictures is easy. Making very good pictures is difficult. Making great pictures is almost impossible
The flow of people in a setting, their changing relationships to each other and their environment, and their constantly changing expressions and movements - all combine to create dynamic situations that provide the photographer with limitless choices of when to push the button. By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.
Grain is the brush stroke of photography. — © Constantine Manos
Grain is the brush stroke of photography.
Try not to take pictures which simply show what something looks like. By the way you put the elements of an image together in a frame show us something we have never seen before and will never see again.
It is easy to take good pictures, difficult to take very good pictures, and almost impossible to take great pictures.
By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.
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