Quotes by Gregory Heisler

Gregory Heisler

A lot of the challenge and the reason for the success of those one-shot photographers is that their pictures almost have to be subject proof. Because you usually only have a few minutes with the person. You never know who’s going to walk into the room – whether they’re going to be friendly, grumpy, sick of photographers, or between meetings.

Challenges

Friendly

Sick

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

Climate

Creating

Photographer

Digital held no romance for me at all. I hated it. I miss my big cameras. The working process, I miss it.

Cameras

Missing

Romance

I hate to say it because I think people are risk averse these days more than ever. Before they even pick up the phone, they know what the picture’s going to be. So there’s a certain comfort in that, a certain security that they can lay out the cover of the magazine and kind of know what it’s going to be.

Hate

Phones

Thinking

I never do pictures that I’ve done before – but I really try not to. Whenever I get an assignment I try to think how to shoot this person for this story in this magazine at this point in time.

Stories

Thinking

Trying

I wanted to grow in terms of making pictures, not adapting to new software and technology. But that’s the game now.

Games

Technology

Term

I was shooting lots of large format portraits then but I’ve since changed to digital, where you have so much more control. There are millions of things you can do with digital; you can be more spontaneous, and you’re more in control of your color palette.

Color

Portraits

Shooting

I’m an artist in residence, I’ve still been able to accept commercial jobs, and what I’ll do is I’ll make little videos on the side that I then bring back to the school and show the students the next day.

Artist

Jobs

School

Magazines don’t have enough confidence to have their own style, so they use a borrowed style. That is shocking to me, but your perception is very accurate. It’s a way to be more commercially viable, but to me, that’s not having a style, that’s having a schtick.

Perception

Style

Use

My brother used to say some people have an “inferiority simplex.” It’s not that they’re under the delusion that they’re inferior; they actually are inferior and they secretly know it.

Brother

Inferiority

People

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Artist

Brother

Cameras

Careers

Challenges

Climate

Color

Creating

Decision

Digital

Ends

Fingerprints

Friendly

Games

Hate

Helping

Inferiority

Jobs

Jumping

Lasts

Like You

Looks

Magazines

Missing

Mother

People

Perception

Phones

Photographer

Play

Portraits

Reason

Roles

Romance

School

Shooting

Sick

Stories

Style

Technology

Term

Thinking

Thoughtful

Trying

Unique

Use

Want

Way

Writing

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Quotes by Gregory Heisler

Gregory Heisler

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

Digital held no romance for me at all. I hated it. I miss my big cameras. The working process, I miss it.

I never do pictures that I’ve done before – but I really try not to. Whenever I get an assignment I try to think how to shoot this person for this story in this magazine at this point in time.

I wanted to grow in terms of making pictures, not adapting to new software and technology. But that’s the game now.

I was shooting lots of large format portraits then but I’ve since changed to digital, where you have so much more control. There are millions of things you can do with digital; you can be more spontaneous, and you’re more in control of your color palette.

I’m an artist in residence, I’ve still been able to accept commercial jobs, and what I’ll do is I’ll make little videos on the side that I then bring back to the school and show the students the next day.

Magazines don’t have enough confidence to have their own style, so they use a borrowed style. That is shocking to me, but your perception is very accurate. It’s a way to be more commercially viable, but to me, that’s not having a style, that’s having a schtick.

My brother used to say some people have an “inferiority simplex.” It’s not that they’re under the delusion that they’re inferior; they actually are inferior and they secretly know it.

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