{"id":38,"date":"2011-10-13T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andyphoto.atug.com\/index.php\/photography-quotations-website\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T05:15:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T05:15:03","slug":"photography-quotations-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyphoto.atug.com\/index.php\/photography-quotations-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography Quotations Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently found a great site filled with quotes from famous photographers. “Its called photoquotes.com<\/a>“and even has an index so you can look up your favourite photographer by surname.<\/p>\n

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The photoquotes.com website is full of quotes from photographers.<\/p><\/div>\n

For example I looked up’Henri Cartier-Bresson [1908 \u2013 2004] A French photographer – considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. “Here is an example of one of his quotes:<\/p>\n

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again – Henri Cartier-Bresson<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More of his quotes can be found on the photoquotes website here<\/a>. The site also hosts some photos and references to books and interviews with each photographer. “Here is one of Cartier-Bresson’s photos.<\/p>\n

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Hy’res, France 1932 by Henri Cartier-Bresson (view full size<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n

WordPress Plugin<\/h2>\n

Postscript<\/strong>: I created a wordpress plugin that contains a few photography quotes and is now embedded throughout this andyphoto website. You can click “new quote” to scroll through the quotes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently found a great site filled with quotes from famous photographers. “Its called photoquotes.com“and even has an index so you can look up your favourite photographer by surname. For example I looked up’Henri Cartier-Bresson [1908 \u2013 2004] A French photographer – considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. “Here is an example of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23,25,24],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-cartier-bresson","tag-photographers","tag-quotations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyphoto.atug.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyphoto.atug.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyphoto.atug.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyphoto.atug.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyphoto.atug.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/andyphoto.atug.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/andyphoto.atug.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyphoto.atug.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyphoto.atug.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyphoto.atug.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}