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…the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?

Abelardo Morell

It’s important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation – to become a thing different from what we are used to, to be another version of itself.
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Different Important Photograph Thing Transformation Undergo
At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life–at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.
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Book Convince Fit Life Material Stuff Time
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.
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Child Children Closely Look Myself PointStarted Vantage
I try to approach everything that I photograph with this sense of wide-eyed awe.
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Approach Everything Photograph Sense Wide
There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It’s getting very dull now.
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Done Forever Lot Photography Point Social Untruth
I could finally put into images bottled up feelings of absurdity and alienation – and also joy and delight.
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Alienation Bottled Feeling Delighted Sensibility
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.
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Care Interested Interesting Making Photograph Picture
If you care to look with young eyes.
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Care Eye Look Young
…the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?
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Media Photography Picture Potent Strange
The thing that makes me want to make pictures now is just looking without many prejudices. The stuff right under your eyes is the most wonderful universe
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Eye Look Make Picture Prejudice Stuff
The spiritual aspect of my work has more to do with the sense that things in the world can be perceived and accepted as being in some respect alive.
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Alive Aspect Perceived Sense Spiritual Trying World
Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at the beginning, but a voice.
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Crazy Photography Sensibility Situation Voice
So, okay photography doesn’t tell the truth. So what? Everyone has known this forever.
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Everyone Forever Okay Photography Truth

…the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?

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…the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?

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