Photographer Quotes - Page 31

• Different people can photograph the same things with the same tools and create such different images.

  John Paul Caponigro

  People, Different, Tools

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• We see the world through our experience.

  John Paul Caponigro

  World

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• Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Photography, Hands, Perception

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• A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Looks, Photograph, Invitations

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• Many oriental cultures make a distinction between two ways of looking - 'hard eyes' and 'soft eyes'. When we look with hard eyes, we see specific details with sharp focus, but we don't see the relationships between different details as well. When we look with soft eyes we see the relationships between everything in our field of vision, but with this softer focus, we don't see all the details as clearly. It's possible to look in two ways at once.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Eye, Two, Focus

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• The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.

  Paul Caponigro

  Mystery, Influence

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• We talk about the vulnerability involved in sharing our work publicly. I don't think we talk enough about the real vulnerability involved in making art; if we truly engage the process we are changed by it.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Art, Real, Thinking

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• Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Want, Position

  Sean Callahan, Elliott Erwitt, Alskog, inc (1974). “The private experience: Elliott Erwitt”

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• I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.

  Patti Smith

  Vision, Singers, Mediums

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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• Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly, but deal with content; be a formalist exploration; and operate on some, metaphor is not the right word but, resonant level.

  Stephen Shore

  Art, Mean, Levels

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• I've got to get the ultimate in composition today. or I've got to get the ultimate in light, I'll stay here until it appears. I was not making any demands. I went purely to see what would come, what might be there. I didn't have to be archaeologist or historian or tourist, I just needed to be available.

  Paul Caponigro

  Light, Tourists, Demand

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• When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Suffering, Vitality, Doe

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• Can you keep your balance? Can you see what and where you are at any given moment?

  Paul Caponigro

  Balance, Moments, Where You Are

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• I use my music to tune myself.

  Paul Caponigro

  Tunes, Use

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• All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver.

  Paul Caponigro

  Dream, Silver, Locked

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• Let us not be afraid to allow for post-visualization. By post-visualization I refer to the willingness on the part of the photographer to revisualize the final image at any point in the entire photographic process.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Finals, Process, Posts

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• A picture is what it is and I've never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about them, much less volunteer information in words. It wouldn't make any sense to explain them. Kind of diminishes them. People always want to know when something was taken, where it was taken, and, God knows, why it was taken. It gets really ridiculous. I mean, they're right there, whatever they are.

  William Eggleston

  Taken, Mean, People

  "Out of the ordinary" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2004.

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• To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her.

  Jacques-Henri Lartigue

  Making Love, Idiotic, Seems

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• The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

  Frederick Sommer

  Photography, Way, Fields

  Frederick Sommer, University of Arizona. Center for Creative Photography (1984). “Sommer: . Images”

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• I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach.

  Sally Mann

  Thinking, Trying, Layers

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• Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were poetry, would be more like Ezra Pound. There is a lot of information in most of my pictures, but not the kind of information you see in documentary photography. There is emotional information in my photographs.

  Sally Mann

  Photography, Emotional, Would Be

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• [The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Meditation, Cameras, Energy

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• A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Astonishment, Wow, Consciousness

  "Joel Meyerowitz: 'brilliant mistakes ... amazing accidents'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2012.

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• 'Tough' meant it was an uncompromising image, something that came from your gut, out of instinct, raw, of the moment, something that couldn't be described in any other way. So it was tough. Tough to like, tough to see, tough to make, tough to understand. The tougher they were the more beautiful they became.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Beautiful, Way, Tough

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• What is the art experience about? Really, I'm not interested in making Art at all. I never, ever, think about it. To say the word Art, it's almost like a curse on art. I do know that I want to try to get closer to myself. The older I get, the more indications I have about what it is to get closer to yourself. You try less hard. I just want to be.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Art, Thinking, Trying

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