Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
BERENICE ABBOTTThe second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework – that to me is the art of photography.
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The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever.
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The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
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Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality.
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You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I’m the one to do it.
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The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework – that to me is the art of photography.
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The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.
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I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.
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I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs.
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Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.
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The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens’ vision are esthetically often a virtue.
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The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
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It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term-selectivity.
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Suppose we took a thousand negatives… combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city – that would be my favorite picture.
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Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
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Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
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