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20 Quotes By Photographer Gregory Heisler
Enjoy this collection of quotes by Gregory Heisler.
“A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.” – Gregory Heisler
“Photography’s 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent moving furniture.” – Gregory Heisler
“Shoot what you can’t help but shoot” – Gregory Heisler
“To me, style is like your fingerprint. Nobody else has it.” – Gregory Heisler
“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.” – Gregory Heisler
“Normally I do all my own post work. It’s not that I do it better than anyone else, I just do it my way. I make decisions. People who print at labs are probably far better printers, but they won’t make my decisions mid-process. I don’t want to be out of the loop. I want to be a photographer and do all of it.” – Gregory Heisler
“There are a lot of decisions to make, creatively. Now, with digital, you can really be the author of your own work. From the beginning to the end of the process
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Photographer Gregory Heisler Settles into a New Career
Photographer Gregory Heisler teaches students at Newhouse.
A few decades ago—when darkrooms and Kodachrome were staples of professional photography—a “hotshot” photographer spoke at the Rochester Institute of Technology about his extremely successful career.
In the audience sat an eager young college student who worked up enough courage to ask the first question: What advice would he give students seeking to build a similar career?
Do something else, the photographer told students; photography is dead.
That impressionable young student was professor and photographer Gregory Heisler. And lucky for countless admirers of his profound body of work—and now the Newhouse School—Heisler did not take those words to heart.
His love of photography was just too great, Heisler says, and he forged ahead, building a career that is widely admired and celebrated today.
“The guy’s a total photographic rock star,” says Bruce Strong, chair of the multimedia, photography and design (MPD) program at the Newhouse School. “When you see his name you usually see the word ‘legend’ in front of it.”
And since fall 2014, that legend and rock star has called Newhouse home as a Distinguished Professor of photography teaching both graduate and u