Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Ruth Orkin

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Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Ruth Orkin was an American photographer, photojournalist, and filmmaker, with ties to New York City and Hollywood. Best known for her photograph An American Girl in Italy (1951), she photographed many celebrities and personalities including Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Ava Gardner, Tennessee Williams, Marlon Brando, and Alfred Hitchcock.

American - Photographer | September 3, 1921 - January 16, 1985

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To be a photojournalist takes experience, skill, endurance, energy, salesmanship, organization, wheedling, climbing, gatecrashing, etc. - plus an eye and patience.

Ruth Orkin

My mother said that when I was young I was constantly saying, Look at this - Look at that. I think that taking pictures must be my way of asking people to Look at this - Look at that. If my photographs make the viewer feel what I did when I first took them - Isn't this funny... terrible... moving... beautiful? - then I've accomplished my purpose.

Ruth Orkin

Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

Ruth Orkin

Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Ruth Orkin

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