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Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable read more
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the read more
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
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.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because read more
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it read more
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
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.
Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that read more
Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time -- this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.
Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.
Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.
