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I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject read more
I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first read more
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but read more
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.
You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. read more
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
To manipulate an image is to control a people
To manipulate an image is to control a people
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, read more
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.
