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Photography... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect.
Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.
I come from suburban America. It was a very safe environment and it was a good place to come from in that it was a good place to leave.
It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.
As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.
I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
I don’t crop my images and I always shoot handheld. By doing that I build in a kind of imperfection and this helps to emphasize reality.
Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.
Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.
I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best.
Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.
I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.
You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.
The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.
I enjoy photographing. It's always interesting, so I can't say one thing is more fun than another. Everything has it's own difficulties.
I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.
Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.
There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the same view.
Life is beating against the school windows. You must quickly open the doors and go out to learn that no door must be locked against you.
It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.
Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.
Gear is the least important part of the equation. Having a vision and being able to articulate an idea visually are much more important.
If you're lucky enough to have captured maybe two hundred memorable pictures, you still haven't captured that much experience, have you?
I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the future.
If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.
I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.
We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct.
Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.
If we remove all judgment and preconceived ideas of who a person is, the truth is, we are all blessed with the same emotions and desires.
I love my life! Even if I don't get what I want, when I want it, doesn't mean the world is against me, it just means God has other plans.
The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.
While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.
The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.
Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
In general I try to spend the mornings connecting and keeping things organized, and then try and do more creative work in the afternoons.
Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.
I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.
Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.
I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places.
The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.
It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life.
If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself worth giving.
The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.
A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was