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“I
wanted to make moody images. That meant working with very
little light. So I had no option; I had to use fast films
- that dictated my pictures being grainy. I did not choose
the technique first.
When I make a picture I always choose the light before
I choose the technique”
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| Ansel
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"There
are always two people in every picture: the photographer
and the viewer. "
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| Robert
Doisneau |
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"A
hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there
- even if you put them end to end, they still only add
up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity."
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Authur
Fellig
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"When
you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself
and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry
with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on
the right track."
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| Jacques-Henri
Lartigue |
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"Photography
to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which
is true."
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| Henri
Cartier-Bresson |
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"Photography
has not changed since its origin except in its technical
aspects, which for me are not important."
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Henri
Cartier-Bresson
on photojournalism,
Amercan Photo,
September/October 1997,
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"Reality
offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out
on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut
out what we should? While we're working, we must be conscious
of what we're doing. Sometimes we have the feeling that
we've taken a great photo, and yet we continue to unfold.
We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly
and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary
images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity
of the whole."
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Diane
Arbus
"Diane Arbus : A Biography "
by Patricia Bosworth
ISBN: 0393312070
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"A
photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells
you the less you know."
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| Diane
Arbus |
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"The
thing that's important to know is that you never know."
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Diane
Arbus
"Photography Year 1973"
<Life Library of Photography>
by Time Life (Editor)
page: 35
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"Nothing
is ever the same as they said it was." |
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Diane
Arbus
"Diane Arbus : An Aperture Monograph"
by Diane Arbus, Stan Grossfeld
ISBN: 0893816949
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"I
really believe there are things nobody would see if I
didn't photograph them."
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Mason
Resnik
1998
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"When
asked what you would consider the perfect getaway, say
'a week alone in a darkroom' and mean it." |
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| Ansel
Adams |
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"It
is horrifying that we have to fight our own government
to save the environment."
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Robert
Capa
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"If
your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough." |
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| Edward
Steichen |
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"Every
other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper.
The photographer begins with the finished product."
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| Edward
Steichen |
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"The
mission of photography is to explain man to man and each
man to himself. And that is the most complicated thing
on earth."
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| Mary
Ellen Mark |
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"I
think you have to have a real point of view that's your
own. You have to tell it your way. And, I think that it's
a mistake to shoot for a specific magazine's point of
view because it's never going to be as good. You have
to shoot for yourself and photograph the way you believe
it."
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| Walker
Evans |
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"It's
the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry. Listen, eavesdrop.
Die knowing something. You are not here long."
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| W.
Eugene Smith |
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"The
world just does not fit conveniently into the format of
a 35mm camera."
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Diane
Arbus
"On Photography" by Susan Sontag
ISBN: 0385267061 |
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"I
always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do
-- that was one of my favorite things about it, and when
I first did it, I felt very perverse."
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| Diane
Arbus |
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"I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't
like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something,
instead of arranging it, I arrange myself."
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William
McCleery
- in reference to Weegee
in 'Naked City'
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"He
will take his camera and ride off in search of new evidence
that his city, even in her most drunken and disorderly
and pathetic moments, is beautiful."
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| Edward
Weston |
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"My
true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect
to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals
to me."
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| Brett
Weston |
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"The
taint of age can be very beautiful. The wreckage of man-made
objects is something more beautiful than the new. Rust
and weathering adds a patina of . . . well, I call it
'elegant shit'…"
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Brett
Weston
In an interview with David Graham
View Camera magazine,
July 1989
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"Anything
more than 500 yds from the car just isn't photogenic."
(Attributed to Brett Weston referring to working with
a 10X8 view camera..)
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| Berenice
Abbott |
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"Photography
can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It
has to walk alone; it has to be itself."
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| Robert
Heinecken |
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"There
is a vast difference between taking a picture and making
a photograph."
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| John
Berger |
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"A
photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation
of its subject, but actually a trace of it."
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Friedrich
Nietzsche
1844 - 1900
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"'He
who considers more deeply knows that, whatever his acts
and judgements may be, he is always wrong."
- on 'the human lot'. From Human, All too
Human : 'Man Alone With Himself'
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Modest
Mouse
- Issac?
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"I'm
not sure who I am. I'm not sure who I am but I know who
I've been."
From 'This is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to
Think About' (1996)
Track: Make Everyone Happy/Mechanical Birds
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