Aaron Siskind Quotes

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
AARON SISKIND

Documentary Worship
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect… but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
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Learn
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
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Caught Inspiring Touching Way
Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that’s your picture.
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Assert Finally Gradually Sometimes
The only nature I’m interested in is my own nature.
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Interested Own
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism.
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Documentary Mean Tradition Viewer
Purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
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Document Facet
For some reason or other there was in me the desire to see the world clean and fresh and alive, as primitive things are clean and fresh and alive. The so-called documentary picture left me wanting something.
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Primitive
The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area of struggle, this is the arena, this is where the fight is taking place, the battle.
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Canvas Expression Fighting
As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position.
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Approach Eye Learn Moving Position

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