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• I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.

  John Sexton

  Beautiful, Artist, Photographer

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• There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Jobs, Manipulation

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• Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.

  Bruce Beresford

  Hats, Mexico, Sombreros

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• I am a postmodern romantic. I try to use their way to photograph, and at the same time, incorporate the problems that I feel in a country like Guatemala.

  Luis Gonzalez

  Country, Trying, Use

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I don't particularly care about photographic authorship. Whether an astronaut who doesn't even have a viewfinder makes an image, a robotic camera, a military photographer, or Mike Light really doesn't matter. What matters is the context of the final photograph and the meaning it generates within that context.

  Michael Light

  Military, What Matters, Light

  "100 Suns and the Nuclear Sublime". Interview with Robert Hirsch, lightresearch.net. July / August 2005.

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• Always, when the words art and artistic are applied to my photographic work, I am disagreeably affected. This is due, surely, to the bad use and abuse made of those terms. I consider myself a photographer, nothing more. If my photographs differ from that which is usually done in this field, it is precisely because I try to produce not art but honest photographs, without distortions or manipulations.

  Tina Modotti

  Art, Abuse, Trying

  Tina Modotti, Robert Miller, Spencer Throckmorton, Robert Miller Gallery (New York, N.Y.) (1997). “Tina Modotti: photographs”

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• When you're somebody who has the pretension to make art, it's completely different from when someone else says I want to make a book of your art. You don't decide the title, you don't decide the size, the order of the photographs . . . so it's completely out of control!

  Luis Gonzalez

  Art, Book, Order

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates and which is eternal through time.

  Jeff Koons

  Spiritual, Essence, Doe

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• [My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy. It is like the animals I use. They are posed in order to appear to be alive, but they are dead. Their time has passed. The photos have to do with time and loss, and conclusion.

  Annette Messager

  Loss, Animal, Love Is

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• I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.

  Danny Lyon

  Responsible, Feels

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• ... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth.

  Michael Light

  Cameras, Gravestone, Impression

  "100 Suns and the Nuclear Sublime". Interview with Robert Hirsch, lightresearch.net. July / August 2005.

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• My pictures are not really about the children that I photograph. They're more like actors in a film. I think you can always recognize the children, but they are alienated from their real appearance and become more like metaphors.

  Loretta Lux

  Children, Real, Thinking

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• I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of my photographs.

  Loretta Lux

  Thinking, Costumes, Term

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• Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.

  Douglas McCulloh

  Photography, Short Life, Years

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• Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it.

  Douglas McCulloh

  Past, Times Past, Saved

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• ... if [a photograph is] unbelievably real it becomes superreal or another kind of super real, better than real... [it] also can be, I think, so heartfelt that you almost can get a pang of compassion for the thing.

  Ralph Eugene Meatyard

  Real, Thinking, Compassion

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• I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.

  Ralph Eugene Meatyard

  Imagination, Realistic, Abstract

  James Rhem, Ralph Eugene Meatyard (2002). “Ralph Eugene Meatyard : the family album of Lucybelle Crater and other figurative photographs”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Merging photographs can be more real than the isolated image because reality is so much more rich than just an isolated moment.

  Pedro Meyer

  Real, Moments, Rich

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• The photograph as an objective representation of reality simply does not exist. The photograph does not explain to you what is going on to the left or to the right or above or below the frame. Oftentimes, it doesn't even explain to you what is going on inside the frame.

  Pedro Meyer

  Reality, Doe, Representation

  "MotherJones ND93: Truth & fiction" by Ruben Martinez, www.motherjones.com. November/December 1993.

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• A photograph is a photograph. When I am making a picture I am just interested in making a very interesting photograph. I don't care where it's going to go.

  Abelardo Morell

  Interesting, Care, I Don't Care

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 2, 2003.

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• I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from vantage points I hadn't considered before.

  Abelardo Morell

  Children, Looks, Vantage Point

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• A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

  Jean-Francois Millet

  Taken, Casts, Inferiors

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• I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But to me the real power of photography is based in death: the fact that somehow it can enliven that which is not there in a kind of stultifying frightened way, because it seems to me that part of one's life is made up of a constant confrontation with one's own death.

  Barbara Kruger

  Photography, Real, Thinking

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• When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm movies.... Now we have video, digital cameras, MP3s, and a million other ways to document ourselves. But the still photograph continues to hold a sense of mystery and awe to me.

  Catherine Opie

  Growing Up, Kids, Mp3

  "The Drive to Describe: An Interview with Catherine Opie". Interview with Maura Reilly, www.americansuburbx.com. 2001.

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• The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.

  Dennis Oppenheim

  Ideas, Giving, Force

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