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  • I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail.

  • We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.

  • As I progressed further with my project, it became obvious that it was really unimportant where I chose to photograph. The particular place simply provided an excuse to produce work... you can only see what you are ready to see - what mirrors your mind at that particular time.

  • Fossils work almost the same way as photography as a record of history. The accumulation of time and history becomes a negative of the image. And this negative comes off, and the fossil is the positive side. This is the same as the action of photography.

    "Tradition: Hiroshi Sugimoto". ART21 interview, art21.org.
  • Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

  • One shouldn’t be only two photographers but thousands.

  • I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all.

    Voice   Giving   Trying  
  • It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on instinct. As a photographer, one of the most important lessons I have learnt is that you have to learn to listen to and trust your own instinct. It has helped to guide me - this far at least.

  • The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

  • Well, I talk about one moment in the book, but I don't know if that's my moment of discovery. It was a moment. In the book, I talk about how I started shooting, how I became a photographer.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression. And this organization, this precision, will always escape you, if you do not appreciate what a picture is, if you do not understand that the composition, the logic, the equilibrium of the surfaces and values are the only ways of giving meaning to all that is continuously appearing and vanishing before our very eyes.

  • The most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question?' The second most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question in the most important way?'

    Important   Asking   Way  
  • I want to be the toughest photographer in the world.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

    Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”
  • In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.

  • In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph.

    Lotte Jacobi (1978). “Lotte Jacobi”
  • Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

    Life   Photography   Hate  
  • You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.

  • The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

  • You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.

  • I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

  • A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.

    "Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art". Book by John Szarkowski, 1973.
  • Once digital came, I could see my images instantly right there on the camera. I think that makes you a better photographer because you can see right there if your subject's eyes are closed or if you exposed it wrong and if it's too bright or dark. You can fix it right here. With film, you wouldn't know until you got the prints back if something was messed up, and then there was nothing you could do. That was a huge advantage.

    Photography   Eye   Dark  
  • Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

    John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.344, Vintage
  • The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his picture is just as interesting as the middle, one can only guess at the existence of a whole, and the view presented seems chosen by chance.

  • If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made already – the challenge is more about trying to make what you can’t think of.

    "Studio: Cindy Sherman". Interview with Betsy Berne, www.tate.org.uk. June 1, 2003.
  • I love the Dutch impressionists - Vermeer, Rembrandt. What they were able to do with light was astonishing. As for photographers, I think mostly of the Hungarians: Robert Capa, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Jozsef Pesci. In fact, I have one of his photographs hanging in my house.

    Thinking   Light   House  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.

  • I've been a photographer for my whole life and I've done everything with photography that I felt I could do, and I always wanted to be a filmmaker.

    "Larry Clark’s America". Interview with Owen Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2016.
  • I'm often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself that I'm a photographer and that this is my job.

    Hurt   Jobs   Grieving  
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