Gregory Heisler Quotes

“Fulfill the assignment first. I aim to please, probably to a fault. This is not a strategy I’d recommend to the next photographer, because it can curtail one’s own creative impulses. As a solution, photographers sometimes shoot two variations of a picture: one for the client that addresses the assignment and one for themselves that floats their boat.”
― Gregory Heisler, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits: Stories and Techniques from a Photographer's Photographer

“It happens a lot. The first frame is the winner.”
― Gregory Heisler, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits: Stories and Techniques from a Photographer's Photographer

“Photography’s 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent moving furniture.”
― Gregory Heisler, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits: Stories and Techniques from a Photographer's Photographer

“As seminal portraitist Arnold Newman used to say, the gesture may be completely natural, but holding that gesture is not, so it rarely feels right to the subject.”
― Gregory Heisler, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits: Stories and Techniques from a Photographer's Photographer