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I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.
BEN SHAHN

Action Interested People Photography Sake
However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced.
AARON SISKIND

Conscious Experienced Immediate Interest Photographer Photography Picture Stress
I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.
BEN SHAHN

Choices Felt Mediums Photography
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Past Photographer Photography
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.
AARON SISKIND

Art Believe Condition Expert Learn Photography World
I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
BEAU BRIDGES

Kids Men Photography
Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Optimism People Photography Real
I’m not a nice girl; I’m a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods )
BERENICE ABBOTT

Art Bowery Girl Nice Photography
The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer’s understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.
EDWARD WESTON

Important Photography Understanding
It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.
AARON SCHARF

Artist Fact Inspiring Photography Place Provocative Today Work
Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? “I’m glad you asked that. I’ve been wanting to say this for years.
AARON SCHARF

Art Conclusion led Mean Photography Recording Simply
We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.
BEAUMONT NEWHALL

Photography Unusual Usual
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.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Art Context Framework Impose Photography Supply
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Growing Photography Walks
I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me.
AARON SISKIND

Discovery Gift Photography Small Taken Wedding
I actually had some funny dialogue [ in Stardust Memories], a little piece, and we shot all day in this big ballroom.
BRENT SPINER

Memories Photography Space
What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We need more simplifications to free us for seeing.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Needs Photography Real Structure
Does not the very word ‘creative’ mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act – rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life – not death.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Living Mean Photography Positive Song
Everybody believes that, but you have to really believe that and work that way.
AARON SISKIND

Believe Everybody Photography Really Way Work
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.
ABELARDO MORELL

Crazy Photography Sensibility Situation Voice
If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.
BEAUMONT NEWHALL

Faithful Historian Photography
So, okay photography doesn’t tell the truth. So what? Everyone has known this forever.
ABELARDO MORELL

Everyone Forever Okay Photography Truth
The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.
BERENICE ABBOTT

May Merit Photography World
I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Decision Important Photography Thinking
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science.
AARON SCHARF

Art Balancing Difficult Imaginative Mechanical Photography Research. Meaningful School Serious Traditional
I had a sense that photography could provide a bridge from the world of science to the world of art, or image.
ADAM FUSS

Art Bridge Image Photography Provide Science Sense World
Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!
ABHIJEET SAWANT

Clicking Essence Great Patience Photography

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